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Title The Oxford handbook of the economics of the Pacific Rim / edited by Inderjit N. Kaur and Nirvikar Singh
Published New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (753 pages) : illustrations, tables
Series [Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Introduction / lNDERJIT KAUR AND NIRVIKAR SINGH -- PART I THE NATURAL WORLD: HISTORY, CLIMATE, AND RISKS -- The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim / ERIC JONES -- Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim / DAVID ROLAND-HOLST -- Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim / lLAN NOY -- PART II PEOPLE: MIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND HUMAN CAPITAL -- International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim / PHILIP MARTIN -- Age Compositional Shifts and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Selected Asian Countries / NAOHIRO OGAWA -- Human Capital Trends in the Pacific Rim / ANNE GOUJON -- PART III PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- Economic Growth and Performance on the Pacific Rim / BARRY BOSWORTH AND SUSAN M. COLLINS -- The New Structural Economics and Strategies for Sustained Economic Development in the Pacific Island Countries / HINH T. DINH AND JUSTIN YIFU LIN -- The Evolution of Fiscal Developments and Policies in the Pacific Rim / MANMOHAN SINGH KUMAR, NIRVIKAR SINGH, AND JAEJOON WOO -- PART IV REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND TRADE LINKAGES -- Asia in Global Economic Governance / WENDY DOBSON AND PETER A. PETRI -- Geoeconomics versus Geopolitics: Implications for Asia / DEVESH KAPUR AND MANIK SURI -- The Political Economy of Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements / JOHN RAVENHILL -- Global Production Sharing and Trade Patterns in East Asia / PREMA-CHANDRA ATHUKORALA -- Foreign Trade of the Pacific-Rim Economies / KAR-YIU WONG -- PART V INDUSTRY, POLICY, AND INNOVATION -- Are the Geese Still Flying? Catch-up Industrialization in a Changing International Economic Environment / lNDERJIT KAUR -- Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment, and the East Asian Economic Integration / TZU-HAN YANG AND DENG-SHING HUANG -- The Impact of Industrial Policy on Asian Growth: An Example from Taiwan / HOWARD PACK -- Creative Industries: Socio-Economic Transformation as the New Face of Innovation / F. TED TSCHANG -- The Road to Innovation in East Asia / SHAHID YUSUF -- PART VI MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCE -- Asian Financial Crises / ANNE O. KRUEGER -- The "Impossible Trinity," the International Monetary Framework, and the Pacific Rim / JOSHUA AIZENMAN AND HIRO ITO -- Rethinking Capital Account Liberalization / MARIA SOCORRO GOCHOCO-BAUTISTA AND NOLI R. SOTOCINAL -- Asian Currencies in the Global Imbalance and Global Financial Crisis / EIJI OGAWA AND CHIKAFUMI NAKAMURA -- Rebalancing of the World Economy and Asia / MENZIE D. CHINN AND HIRO ITO -- China's Financial Openness and Asset Return Linkages in East Asia / REUVEN GLICK AND MICHAEL HUTCHISON -- The Offshore RMB Market in Hong Kong and RMB Internationalization / YIN-WONG CHEUNG AND HUI MIAO
Summary The Pacific Rim is a dynamic as well as diverse economic region, containing the world's three largest economies (US, China and Japan, measured by GDP at PPP). Many of the world's fasting growing and emerging market economies lie in this region. This handbook begins with institutional and historical perspectives. It then goes on to consider various dimensions of economic policies, then examines the growth process and specific challenges to growth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic history
International economic integration
Business & Economics.
Economic History.
SUBJECT Asia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008615
Asia -- Economic integration
Pacific Area -- Economic conditions
Pacific Area -- Economic integration
Subject Asia
Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Kaur, Inderjit N., editor.
Singh, Nirvikar, editor.
LC no. 2013004669
ISBN 9780199984817
0199984816
9780199383993
0199383995
1306417872
9781306417877
0199751994
9780199751990