Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific: Globalising Miracles or the End of a Model?

by Andersson,Martin

• ISBN13: 9780415304160
• ISBN10: 0415304164
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

The authors consider how the Asia-Pacific economies have developed since the financial crises and highlight two inter-related themes: the effect of global forces on the national Asian economies and the different development paths of these economies as they jointly enter this new phase.

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xii
List of contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
List of abbreviations	xvii
Introduction -- Perspectives on development in Asia-Pacific	1	(14)
Martin Andersson
Christer Gunnarsson
PART I Global institutions and the state in Asia-Pacific	15	(110)
Global institutions and economic development -- What have we learned?	17	(31)
Irma Adelman
A tale of two crises -- Latin America in the 1980s and the `HPAEs' in the 1990s	48	(27)
John Weeks
Neo-liberalism on the defensive but not defeated? -- A comparative review of the Asian crisis and lessons for the future	75	(18)
Chris Edwards
The IMF in the Thai economic crisis -- Villain or saviour?	93	(15)
Medhi Krongkaew
Economic growth and social development in Malaysia, 1971--98 -- Does the state still matter in an era of economic globalisation?	108	(17)
Ishak Shari
PART II Divergent development paths among the Asian miracles	125	(90)
Beyond policy explanations -- Towards an alternative analysis of economic development in the Asia-Pacific region	127	(21)
Martin Andersson
Christer Gunnarsson
Education, equality and economic development in Asia-Pacific economies	148	(22)
Anne Booth
Growth and vulnerability before and after the Asian crisis -- The fallacy of the universal model	170	(28)
Jomo K.S.
Epilogue: rest in peace or a relevant piece for the rest? -- Industrialisation models and the new regional division of labour in Asia-Pacific	198	(17)
Martin Andersson
Christer Gunnarsson
Index	215