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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.

145 Series Titles


China's State Owned Enterprise Reforms An Industrial and CEO Approach

China's State Owned Enterprise Reforms: An Industrial and CEO Approach

1st Edition

By Leila Fernandez-Stembridge, Juan Antonio Fernandez
September 10, 2012

Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises ( SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process in the last decade. However, as a major root of social and economic change, little has been discussed beyond a description of SOEs shortcomings and their ...

State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan

State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan

1st Edition

By Yoshiro Miwa
September 10, 2012

Yoshiro Miwa asks whether a state can correct market failures and in particular critically analyses the performance of the Japanese economy as a result of state intervention within it. In order to examine the capacity of the state to promote growth, Miwa examines the Japanese machine tool industry,...

Japan's Development Aid to China The Long-Running Foreign Policy of Engagement

Japan's Development Aid to China: The Long-Running Foreign Policy of Engagement

1st Edition

By Tsukasa Takamine
June 21, 2012

Paradoxically, Japan provides massive amounts of development aid to China, despite Japan's clear perception of China as a prime competitor in the Asia-Pacific region. This clearly written and comprehensive volume provides an overview of the way Japan's aid to China has developed since 1979. It ...

Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities New Development Trajectories

Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities: New Development Trajectories

1st Edition

Edited By Peter W. Daniels, Kong Chong Ho, Tom Hutton
June 20, 2012

During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes ...

Economic Reform and Employment Relations in Vietnam

Economic Reform and Employment Relations in Vietnam

1st Edition

By Ngan Thuy Collins
March 28, 2012

The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006. This book...

Business Practices in Southeast Asia An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries

Business Practices in Southeast Asia: An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries

1st Edition

By Scott A. Hipsher
February 21, 2012

This is an international business study of Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book examines business practices within a political, cultural, economic and religious context. It highlights those cultural and historical ties of the region which are shared ...

India's Emerging Financial Market A Flow of Funds Model

India's Emerging Financial Market: A Flow of Funds Model

1st Edition

By Tomoe Moore
February 21, 2012

In the early 1990s, financial liberalization started in India, and it was thought that such reforms would increase economic growth. This argument formed part of the finance led industrialization hypothesis and although higher growth resulted, higher industrialization did not immediately. This book...

Japanese Science From the Inside

Japanese Science: From the Inside

1st Edition

By Samuel Coleman
November 24, 2011

This new ethnographic study looks of Japan's scientists looks firsthand at career structures and organizational issues that have hampered the advancement of scientists and scientific research in Japan. It provides analysis of the problem of career mobility in science, the status quo in university ...

Institutions for Economic Reform in Asia

Institutions for Economic Reform in Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Philippa Dee
October 11, 2011

In the same way that no economy starts out with the best set of economic policies, no economy starts out with the best institutions to support the policy-making process. Instead, they inherit institutions that reflect their own unique culture and history. The task of structural reform has to be ...

The Rise of Asia Trade and Investment in Global Perspective

The Rise of Asia: Trade and Investment in Global Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Prema-chandra Athukorala
October 11, 2011

The Rise of Asia examines emerging trends and patterns of foreign trade and investment in Asia with a view to contributing to the policy debate on how development strategies should be adopted in response to challenges to economic globalization. The existing body of knowledge in this subject area ...

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution From Moneylenders to Microfinance

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution: From Moneylenders to Microfinance

1st Edition

Edited By Aditya Goenka, David Henley
September 13, 2011

Southeast Asia’s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance – the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor – in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has ...

Banking Reform in Southeast Asia The Region's Decisive Decade

Banking Reform in Southeast Asia: The Region's Decisive Decade

1st Edition

By Malcolm Cook
April 14, 2011

This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s and the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. ...

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