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Responsible Development : Vulnerable Democracies, Hunger and Inequality.
Focuses on the economic collapse of 1997, and the effect on the status of East Asia as an economic power. The author looks at how currency depreciations, personal and state indebtedness, mass unemployment and rioting brought the paternalistic capitalist phase to an end in Asia, and analyzes Asia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I Prosperity and discontent; 1 Freedom and responsibility; 2 The Asian boom on the eve of the Great Recession; 3 Asia's hunger test; 4 The loss of egalitarian capitalism: The dangerous rise in inequality; 5 Damage control: Can Asia reduce environmental stress?; Part II Expansion of freedoms; 6 Investing in just democracies; 7 The end of 'Asian' values and the spread of democracy in south-east and north Asia; Part III Comparison of Asian development strategies.
- 8 Conflict and arrested development: Pakistan's divergence from eastern Asia9 Democratic India and authoritarian east Asia: Are economic and political systems converging?; 10 Responsible development in a vulnerable world; Notes; Bibliography; Index.