Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of the growth economies of Asia.
India’s Economic Corridor Initiatives: INSTC and Chabahar Port
1st Edition
Edited
By Kashif Hasan Khan
July 31, 2025
India’s Economic Corridor Initiatives highlights key aspects of current discourses on India’s initiative of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and Chabahar, and their geo-economic significance. INSTC was founded by India, Russia, and Iran, and the Chabahar port in Iran ...
Competition Law, Regulation and Digital Platforms: Japan, China, UK, EU and USA
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Taplin, Kazuhiko Fuchikawa
May 06, 2025
This book confronts and analyses how competition law in its present form is unable to deal with the new advances in digital technology that have made tech giants not subject to national jurisdictions as they straddle the world, with a particular focus on Japan, China, UK, EU and USA. Demonstrating ...
The Political Economy of Redistribution in Indonesia: Political Patronage and Favoritism in Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Allocations
1st Edition
By Gerrit J. Gonschorek
May 06, 2025
This book analyses how different institutional intergovernmental transfer designs influence patronage and favoritism in public fund allocations in Indonesia. Presenting original research and investigating existing theories on the determinants of public fund allocations, the book uses Indonesia as a...
Ethnicity and Development: Addressing the Gaps in New Institutional Economics
1st Edition
By Shahrukh Rafi Khan
April 14, 2025
Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social progress and challenges the New Institutional ...
Skills Formation for Economic Growth: The Case of Hong Kong
1st Edition
By David Lim
March 31, 2025
This book explores the vocational education programmes of Hong Kong, programmes that are repeatedly noted for their excellence. The book traces the founding and development of the Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong, which was set up in 1982 to offer sub-degree programmes in vocational and ...
Impediments to Trade in Services: Measurements and Policy Implications
1st Edition
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By Christopher Findlay, Tony Warren
January 30, 2025
First Published in 2004. The economic impact of barriers to world trade and investment in services has been thought impossible to measure. As a consequence, significant global policy initiatives such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services have been concluded in an information void. This book...
Post-Pandemic Economic and Social Development: Recovery, Challenges, and Policy in Malaysia
1st Edition
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By Muzalwana Abdul Talib, Ahmad Farid Osman, Elya Nabila Abdul Bahri
November 11, 2024
This book explores Malaysia’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing the profound economic and societal challenges faced from 2020 to 2022. The coverage of Malaysia’s post-pandemic recovery provides valuable insights into ongoing global issues. Contributors to this book address a wide ...
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Cyber Risk and Robotics: A New Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Ruth Taplin
August 26, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most rapidly developing technology in the current Digital Age, but it is also the least defined, understood and adequately explained technological advance. This book brings together a group of leading experts who assess different aspects of AI from different ...
East Asian Ethical Life and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Twenty-First Century: The Ethical Sources of the Entrepreneurial Renewal of Companies and Communities
1st Edition
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By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Qian Zhao
June 25, 2024
This book considers ethical culture in East Asia, examines the impact it has had on economic and social transformation, and explores what effect it might have on solving current problems. It views the ethical culture of East Asia, that is, the beliefs, values, and practices that define East Asian ...
Economic Successes in South Asia: A Story of Partnerships
1st Edition
By Shahrukh Rafi Khan
January 29, 2024
This book analyses economic successes in South Asia and the reasons why they emerge by offering an in-depth analysis of a few case studies against the backdrop of overall policy context and economic performance of these countries. Offering a brief comparative review of South Asia in a global ...
Ersatz Capitalism and Industrial Policy in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Indonesia and Malaysia
1st Edition
By Fabian Bocek
January 29, 2024
This book applies and develops the concept of “ersatz capitalism” in the analysis of industrial policy blockades to economic development in Malaysia and Indonesia. Drawing on insights from international political economy, development studies, industrial and innovation policy, and new ...
India’s Trade Policy in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Amita Batra
January 29, 2024
This book analyses India’s trade policy evolution in the last two decades in the broad context of trends and patterns in global trade and in particular, with reference to the emergence of global value chains (GVCs). Through an in-depth analysis of its trade policy evolution in the 2000s, the author...