Resurgent Asia - Diversity in Development

List of contents

• 1: Historical perspective and initial conditions


• 2: The rise of Asia


• 3: The macroeconomics of growth


• 4: Structural change and economic transformation


• 5: Openness and industrialization


• 6: Markets, governments, and politics


• 7: Unequal outcomes for countries and people


• 8: Asian development and the world economy


• 9: Contemplating the future

About the author

Deepak Nayyar is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He was previously Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York and taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, and as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He has published widely in academic journals. His books include Asian Transformation: An Inquiry into the Development of Nations, and Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy, both Oxford University Press.

Summary

Over the last fifty years Asia has transformed beyond recognition. Resurgent Asia provides an analytical narrative of Asia's incredible development situated in the wider context of historical, political, and social factors.

Additional text

In this remarkable book, Deepak Nayyar analyses the economic rise of Asia over the past fifty years, which has restored its historic significance in the world economy to where it was in the mid-nineteenth century. The book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand Asia's past, present and future, which could chart paths to prosperity in other parts of the developing world.

Product details

• Authors: Deepak Nayyar, Deepak (Emeritus Professor of Economics Nayyar, Nayyar Deepak
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2019
• EAN: 9780198849513
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884951-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Politics & government, Politics and government, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies