In August 1998, the Asian currency crisis that had started in mid-1997 metastasized into a global financial crisis with the devaluation of the rouble and a declaration of a Russian Government default on its internal debt. Is this the first wave of such crises the world will see in the future? One common feature among the countries that have fallen victim to the crisis is that they were all…
Japan's failed revolution: Koizumi and the politics of economic reform asks why, despite all the high expectation's, the Japanese public's desire for economic reform, and leadership of a majority coalition in a parliamentary democracy, the reformer prime minister Koizumi has not achieved the economic reforms expected of him since he surprisingly attained power over a year ago. this book expl…
Armed with a thorough knowledge of Asia, Jim Rohwer is a benevolent but sharp witness of the region's fortunes. He gathers hard facts and opinions from impeccable sources and builds around them a very compelling picture of Asia's need to feed on the best standards America can offer. Asia ought to be selective in the process, and Jim Rohwer offers penetrating views on how the countries of the re…
The contents of this book: Part 1 The Singapore Economy Part 2 Industriual Relations Part 3 Public Enterprises and the government
While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy of leadership's responses. Threats to China come from many fronts, Beardson shows, and by their number and sh…
China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are every…
Contents: 1. Hooked 2. The five-star factory 3. The physical cost 4. The gold rush 5. The stirring masses etc.
The volume is essentially economic in its orientation: it contains both empirical findings and policy analyses dealing with trade among the United States and key ASEAN countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Thailand. However, the authors do extend their primary focus to include the contention that there exists a strong connection between external openness,…
The "Thirty-six Strategies" are well-known to the Chinese and are frequently applied in business practices. No one can pinpoint the exact period in which the thirty-six strategies were written, nor the exact combinations of strategies that constitute the thirty-six. However, through the years, scholars have expediently adopted the thirty-six strategies as a set of common tactics used by the Chi…
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship. Drawing on its unparalleled Asian network, this book offers a fascinating insight into how the region is managing …