Format:
1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:
9780821367483
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0821367471
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9780821367476
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082136748X
Content:
The World Bank has completed a major study of East Asian growth every four years, beginning with the seminal The East Asian Miracle in 1993. Three major developments since the early 1990s call for a reexamination of East Asian growth: the meteoric rise of China, the economic crisis of the nineties, and the rapid growth of cities. This report addresses how development strategies should be adapted in response to these changes. The region has been transformed by these developments, changing from a set of countries that rapidly integrated with the world to one that is also aggressively exploiting the sources of dynamism that lie within Asia. But countries in East Asia now face the domestic side-effects of rapid growth driven by international integration: congestion, conflict, and corruption. The challenge now is to complement global and regional integration with domestic integration. This requires ensuring vibrant cities that are not only linked to the outside world but also well-integrated domestically, strengthening social cohesion and reducing inequality, and providing clean governments which efficiently reinvest the economic returns that accompany fast growth.
Content:
CONTENTS -- Overview: The Unfolding of a Renaissance -- 1 Growth, Gravity, and Friction -- 2 Trade -- 3 Innovation -- 4 Finance -- 5 Cities -- 6 Cohesion -- 7 Corruption -- Maps -- 1.1 East Asia Will Soon Be a Middle-Income Region -- 2.1 Trade Ties Make East Asia a Tightly Knit Region -- 3.1 Telecommunications Flows in East Asia Suggest a Vigorous Exchange of Ideas -- 4.1 Investment Flows within East Asia Are Important -- 5.1 East Asian Cities of All Sizes Will Expand Rapidly during the Next Decade -- 6.1 Within-Country Differences in Poverty Are Considerable in East Asia -- 7.1 The Quality of the Rule of Law Varies Considerably across East Asia -- Boxes -- 1 Renaissance Then and Now -- 2 Growth, Gravity, and Friction in the Pearl River Delta -- 1.1 Once Every Four Years: World Bank Regional Studies on East Asia -- 1.2 "The East Asia Project": Achieving a Big Share in the World Economy -- 1.3 Middle-Income Status: A Period of Significant Change -- 3.1 Ideas and Knowledge: Nonexcludability and Nonrival Consumption -- 3.2 Channels for Acquiring Technology from Abroad -- 3.3 Scale Economies and the OEM and Design and Brand Manufacturing Sequence -- 3.4 Foreign Technology and Domestic Innovation May Support Development -- 3.5 Geography and Knowledge Spillovers -- 5.1 Agglomeration Economies -- 5.2 Optimal Urban Concentration? -- 5.3 Differentials in City Performance in China -- 5.4. Human Capital Externalities in Cities -- 5.5 The Costs of Failure -- 7.1 Singapore, Corruption, and the Civil Service -- 7.2 Corrupt Governments as Joint Monopolists -- 7.3 Competitive Corruption in Cambodia -- 7.4 The History of Corruption in the United States -- Figures -- 1 East Asia Has Kept Pace Despite the 1997-98 Crisis and Japan's Stagnation -- 2 More Than Half of East Asia's Trade Now Occurs within the Region -- 3 Economic Growth in Middle-Income Countries.
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CONTENTS; Overview: The Unfolding of a Renaissance; Boxes; Figures; Tables; Maps; 1 Growth, Gravity, and Friction; 2 Trade; 3 Innovation; 4 Finance; 5 Cities; 6 Cohesion; 7 Corruption
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821367476
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821367476
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
