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.
The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: Its Evolution and Current Challenges
1st Edition
By Maki Umemura
April 25, 2018
This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Japan provides a huge market for pharmaceuticals as the second largest consumer of prescription ...
China's Economic Culture: The Ritual Order of State and Markets
1st Edition
By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
April 09, 2018
China's spectacular rise challenges established economic moulds, both at the national level, with the concept of "state capitalism", and at the firm level, with the notion of indigenous "Chinese management practices". However, both Chinese and Western observers emphasise the transitional nature of ...
Informal Labour in Urban India: Three Cities, Three Journeys
1st Edition
By Tom Barnes
January 22, 2018
During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal labour. Using case studies from three urban regions, this book examines this growth in modern India’s cities and towns. It argues that India has undergone a process of ...
Managing Cyber Risk in the Financial Sector: Lessons from Asia, Europe and the USA
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Taplin
January 12, 2018
Cyber risk has become increasingly reported as a major problem for financial sector businesses. It takes many forms including fraud for purely monetary gain, hacking by people hostile to a company causing business interruption or damage to reputation, theft by criminals or malicious individuals of ...
Business Leadership Development in China
1st Edition
By Shuang Ren, Robert Wood, Ying Zhu
January 03, 2018
This book argues that China’s businesses, and hence China’s future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "leadership gap" in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China’s businesses ...
Reform and Productivity Growth in India: Issues and Trends in the Labour Markets
1st Edition
By Dibyendu Maiti
October 23, 2017
During the last two decades, India has experienced a high growth rate, but the contribution from productivity growth and technological progress has been very low. This has resulted in a poor performance in the employment generation in the formal sector, and this book examines this phenomenon and ...
Small and Medium Enterprises in India: Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters
1st Edition
By Satyaki Roy
June 16, 2017
Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years, and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study, it addresses one central question: If...
Sustaining Development and Growth in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Timo Henckel
May 31, 2017
For several decades, fast-growing East Asia has been the envy of the developing world. Not only has East Asia outperformed all other regions of the world, but it also recovered surprisingly swiftly from the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008–09 global financial crisis. Nevertheless, ...
Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Issues in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Akhand Akhtar Hossain
May 24, 2017
Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth. Hard-hit by the financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia ...
Asian Financial Integration: Impacts of the Global Crisis and Options for Regional Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Yiping Huang, Shiro Armstrong
May 03, 2017
In the wake of the global financial crisis, Asia is leading the global recovery with strong economic growth. However, this book argues that, in the coming years, the region will need to play a much more active role in shaping the future global financial system and, in turn, suggests policy ...
Economic Growth and Employment in Vietnam
1st Edition
By David Lim
December 14, 2016
Vietnam has enjoyed significant economic success since the implementation of its "doi moi" reforms, including rapid growth in GDP, exports and foreign and domestic investment, and a shedding of poorly-performing state-owned enterprises. Despite this, however, the economic situation for many ...
Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea
1st Edition
By Kui-Wai Li
November 07, 2016
Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian economies since 1950. The author summarizes and reconsiders many of the arguments and findings that supported and explained the economic 'miracles' of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, ...