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.
Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey, Richard Mitchell, Zhu Ying
September 20, 2002
This edited collection examines the labour laws of seven industrializing East Asian societies - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam - and discusses the variation in their impact across the whole region. Leading scholars from each country consider both laws ...
Women and Work in Globalizing Asia
1st Edition
By Dong-Sook S. Gills, Nicola Piper
December 31, 2001
This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and ...
Financial Markets and Policies in East Asia
1st Edition
By Gordon De Brouwer
December 27, 2001
While the financial crisis in East Asia could be said to be on the wane in some countries, the reconstruction process in the aftermath and the debate about the financial policies best suited to the region still rages on. This book examines both of these processes in authoritative detail.It includes...
The Political Economy of Development and Environment in Korea
1st Edition
By Jae-Yong Chung, Richard J. Kirkby
December 07, 2001
This book looks at Korea's economic, social and spatial development processes from the early Modernisation period to the financial crisis of 1997. It focuses on the political and ideological control of the state during the developmental era, as well as the environmental problems of Korea, and ...
The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation
1st Edition
By Ian Inkster
November 09, 2001
This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness ...
Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre: Emergence and Development, 1945-1965
1st Edition
By Dr Catherine Schenk
April 26, 2001
Based on previously unpublished archival records, this book studies the origins of Hong Kong's post war rise to global prominence. It explores the expansion of the gold market, stock market, banking system, foreign exchange market, and insurance in the years 1945-1965. This book makes a significant...
China's Entry into the World Trade Organisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Drysdale, Ligang Song
November 30, 2000
This volume provides a detailed up-to-date analysis of the strategic issues and policy options of China's accession to the WTO. Quantitative analysis demonstrates how tariff reduction resulting from China's accession to the WTO will benefit the Chinese economy as well as the rest of the world. The...
Capital and Labour in Japan: The Functions of Two Factor Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Atsuhiro Taki
June 26, 2000
Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Atsuhiro Taki emphasise several institutional features in Japan which differ from those in Euro-American countries: for example, the permanent employment and seniority system in wages and promotion, the dual structure, Keiretsu transactions, the main bank system, and ...
Corporatism and Korean Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis L. McNamara
August 17, 1999
Corporatism and Korean Capitalism employs corporatist theory to examine the Korean experience of state-business ties. It includes theoretical chapters on Asian and Korean corporatism, case studies of agriculture, industry and industrial relations and an introduction to comparative corporatism. It ...
Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Asian Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Collignon, Yung Chul Park, Jean Pisani-Ferry
July 08, 1999
The future emergence of a European monetary zone is set to transform the configuration of the international monetary system and the roles of the dollar, the Euro and the yen within this system. This book addresses this issue with discussion of:* exchange rate policies pursued in the principal Asian...
Technology, Competitiveness and the State: Malaysia's Industrial Technology Policies
1st Edition
By Greg Felker, K. S. Jomo
July 08, 1999
This volume, and its companion, Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on role played by state-sponsored innovation in the process economic ...
Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Greg Felker, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Rajah Rasiah
May 05, 1999
This book, and its companion, Technology, Competitiveness and the State, examine and evaluate Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development. The focus is on the development of Malaysia's technological-industrial base from a sector and ...