Political economy

In the last two decades of the 20th century, China stood out as the world's star performer in economic growth, thanks to the market-oriented reform that started in 1978.

The March 2000 presidential elections in Taiwan returned a pro-independence candidate.

How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country?

Asia's and Europe's discovery of each other dates back several hundred years and has undergone tremendous transformation.

This volume looks at China's foreign policy from the perspective of learning theory, a relatively new approach to foreign policy analysis based on social psychology.

With mounting discontent due to widespread unemployment, corruption and misgovernment, the Ninth National People's Congress in March 2000 was a letdown.

Taiwan in Troubled Times is concerned with Taiwan's politics and its relations with China following the election of Chen Shui-bian as President in March 2000.

The lack of institutionalization around China's leadership succession was brought into focus again in the run-up to the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and the widespread speculation on the final leadership line-up.

In December 2001, Taiwan held an election that many observers said, in addition to the 2000 election that resulted in opposition party leader Chen Shui-bian winning the presidency, consolidated its democracy.

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.

This book collates a number of case studies by former students from the Master of Arts (Social Work) programme whose stream of study was Social Services Administration.

With the new team of Chinese leaders at the helm following the successful hosting of the 16th Party Congress in November 2002, the attention of China's scholars has now shifted to the raft of challenges that await the new leadership.

This book describes and analyzes the demographic changes that took place in Taiwan between 1945 and 1995.

This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming many lives.

The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system.

Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of China's "e;political civilization"e; since the term was introduced by then Party Secretary Jiang Zemin in 2002.

This volume is an updated survey and assessment of the recent policy initiatives of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, which have come to be known as the Hu-Wen's New Deal.

There is widespread recognition - among policy-makers, business communities, and scholars - of the importance of improving environmental policy and management in China.

This book provides a discussion of the general impact of WTO membership on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and addresses the political and economic impact on cross-Strait relations of common membership.

The current literature on financial economics is dominated by neoclassical dogma and, supposedly, the notion of value-neutrality.

In Interpreting China's Development, leading experts on China provide an overview of this growing superpower, highlighting key issues in the country's political, economic and social development.

China has been enjoying stellar economic growth for more than a quarter of a century.

The Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades.

China has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities.

This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters.

Why have Taiwan, rich parts of China, and Thailand boomed famously, while the Philippines has long remained stagnant both economically and politically?

The recent global financial crisis illustrates how fragile economic globalization is and how vulnerable all global citizens are to economic events outside their own country.

After more than 30 years of rapid development, China has established herself as an important engine of growth for the world economy.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agriculture and forest productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches to bring solutions to food-insecure regions of South and Southeast Asia.

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences.

Despite the significant progress it has achieved, China faces daunting challenges today.

Handbook of Contemporary China is a convenient reference in one single volume that offers comprehensive overviews of crucial cultural dimensions and key institutions of China.

International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology.

This edited volume is a compilation of the analyses written by East Asian Institute experts on Hong Kong since the handover.

This book examines the national automotive policy in Malaysia to help readers gain an understanding of the country's industrial policy-making processes.

This book brings forth the philosophical, conceptual and practical contours of the trade regionalism provisions under the GATT/WTO.

This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center.

This book analyses and assesses the Agadir Agreement's impact on economic integration, its effect on political cooperation, and its role in promoting peace between participating countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution-capital-value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist accumulation fluctuations from both political economy and economic policy perspectives.

This book focuses on an attractive theoretical subject as well as a practical issue, which analyses the inner relationship of economic growth and income distribution in China.

This book looks back to 40 years ago for the whole history of China's reform and opening-up and focuses on the role change of China in the relationship with outside world.

This book provides a focus on some of the main markers and challenges that are at the core of the study of structural transformations in contemporary capitalism and their implications for labour in the Global South.

This book is the first of its kind to offer an understanding, analysis, and prediction of the state of civil society in Bangladesh in relation to development and democracy.

This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science.

This book pursues a Marxist approach with an emphasis on class to reflect on Marx's Capital in the context of the East.

In China, the government controls a large part of resources, such as land, energy, bank savings, and so on.

Containing the latest research and insights of academics and development practitioners pursuing political and economic reforms in the ASEAN region, Building Inclusive Democracies in ASEAN recognizes that a well-functioning democracy is part of what ultimately fosters inclusive growth and development.