"Easily the most informed and comprehensive analysis to date on how and why East Asian countries have achieved sustained high economic growth rates, [this book]

East Asia is regarded as growth center in the world today, even as political tension in that region remains high. Economic growth has spilled over from Japan to

The fifteen essays in this volume address from several viewpoints the question of what role population change played in East Asia's rapid economic development.

East Asia has been a paragon of global development success. The dramatictransformation of the region over the past half century—with a succession ofcountries

Is the East Asian growth record replicable today? This book answers: yes. It places the common East Asian theme in the theoretic context of product cycles, glob