Product Description: This wide-ranging collection addresses many important issues in China's economy under transition, from grain production to trade, to the development of township enterprises, the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, the emergence of big business, money demand and consumption behaviour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Juzhong Zhuang, David Edwards, David Webb (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume presents the five country studies on Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. Each country study contains an overview of the corporate sector, and covers corporate ownership and control, corporate financing and investment, and the corporate sector in the financial crisis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the wake of currency and banking crises in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, these articles provide a regional early warning system prototype designed to anticipate emerging macroeconomic, financial, and corporate sector vulnerabilities...read more

Product Description: While Asia’s growth record in recent decades is remarkable, it has been marred by rising inequalities. This book looks at recent trends of income and non-income inequalities in developing Asian countries, discusses their underlying driving forces, and examines key policy issues that need to be addressed to ensure that the benefits of growth will be more equitably shared in Asia...read more

Product Description: Asia’s rapid economic growth has led to a significant reduction in extreme poverty, but accompanied by rising inequality. This book deals with three questions: What have been the trends of inequality in Asia and the Pacific? What are the key drivers of rising inequality in the region? How should Asian countries respond to the rising inequality? Technological change, globalization, and market-oriented reform have been the key drivers of Asia’s remarkable growth and poverty reduction, but they have also had significant distribution consequences...read more