Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Much has been written on China's State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) reform following the restructuring impact on China's economic reform process. This book provides an analysis of SOEs by assessing the transformation process of eleven specific industries, with reference to the state of competition, and the influence of WTO membership.

A comprehensive overview of the the Japanese foreign exchange market, this text provides a comparative economic analysis of practices and risks as well as related policy issues.

Guangdong is one of the key industrial centres and economic powerhouses in China. This book illustrates how Guangdong's impressive development record has been marred by its rising regional disparity, investigates the main causes of this disparity, and draws conclusions regarding the lessons China can learn from it.

Surveys the growth of large corporations in Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on corporate organization, methods of finance, the business environment and corporate governance. This book details the different phases of corporate and financial development, and illustrates the theoretical issues through country-specific case studies.

Surveys Vietnam's economic reforms since the start of the transition from socialist planning to market economy, and in particular their impact on employment relations - the transformation of which has been a key part of reforms and a necessary pre-condition to Vietnam's entry to the WTO in 2006.

Examines various 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.

This collection examines and evaluates Malaysian industrialization in terms of its experience of and prospects for industrial technology development.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of trends in the patterns of trade in Asia, assessing how they are likely to develop in the future. Informed by technical economic thinking, this book provides an examination of the influence of an economic superpower.

This book is the first systematic exposition of the Japanese approach to economic development and systematic transition to appear in the English language and is important reading for students, researchers and professional policy makers.

This book explores the substantial and dynamic innovations of the wartime era, identifying this period as the most influential on Japan's post-war economic structure.

This book shows how cheap labour, combined with currency devaluation is no longer sufficient for export success, through a series of case studies of textile and garment and electronics industries in five Asian economies.

Examines how intellectual property (IP) is used in Japan, and how it has developed a different approach to IP, borrowed from the US and Europe, stressing the importance of innovation, to revitalise the Japanese economy from the stagnation and deflation that characterised the 1990s.

Assesses the problems and solutions for those attempting to outsource through an analysis of human resource management, insourcing, lifecycles of the project, insurance requirements, operational management and recruitment within the context of the financial services industry, and automotive and IT industries.

Represents an effort to view China's rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan to international prominence - the emergence of a capitalist political economy. This book draws out what capitalism in the dragon's lair implies for our 21st century world.

Including many papers from scholars based in Japan and China, this collection supplies insights into aspects of East Asian economic development which will interest scholars in a variety of related fields and provoke further research and debate.

The contributors to this book examine the need for an exchange rate regime in Asia following the 1997 to 1998 Asian currency crisis and discuss whether a currency basket system is the answer.

Using the information technology sector as the main case study of the 'alliance' between Singapore and India, this book examines the challenges that both have overcome to expand their bilateral trade. It provides a competitive analysis for intra-regional foreign direct investment.

Is late industrialization an advantage? This book examines the case of South Korea and compares it with the experiences of Germany at the turn of the century and Japan this century.

Examines the consequences of SARS in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia, with attention to the economic, labour market and human resource management implications of the outbreak. This book combines empirical data with thematic analysis, and also considers the implications for business and governmental policy-making.

Presents the Singapore economy through a macroeconometric model. Using modelling techniques, this book offers insights into how the Singapore economy works. It presents an introduction to the Singapore economy and is useful for econometric modellers and policy makers in Singapore as well as undergraduates and graduate researchers.

Written by a recognized expert in the area of business economics, this book analyzes the effect of the IT revolution, globalization and the 'new economy' on the development of East Asia.

This collection translates key speeches and articles from the debates surrounding Indonesian economic development, previously rarely available in English.

This text examines the process of trade policy making in Japan and takes the US/Japan trade talks of the mid 1980s as a focal case study. Four key areas are covered: pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; electronics; and forestry products.

Since 1975 the economy of Papua New Guinea has focused on mineral, rather than agricultural production as previously. This is the first book to look at these changes in a complex, rapidly evolving nation from an economic perspective.