Industrialization and Challenges in Asia

• Main Author: Jayanthakumaran, Kankesu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Development economics.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Asian Economics.; Development Economics.; Sustainable Development.

This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and named...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Inward Orientation as a developmental strategy
• 2. Outward Orientation as an alternative strategy for development
• 3. Japan and the Asian Tigers
• 4. Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• 5.China: an emerging giant
• 6.India’s growth path
• 7.Asian to global crisis
• 8.Poverty and Urbanization in Asia.