"This text demonstrates how the government of China has been significantly affected by attempts to harmonize the unique nature of its indigenous culture with a variety of ...

India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive ...

This book analyses and evaluates the experience of the eleven Asian economies undertaking the transition from central planning to a more market oriented approach.

The third edition of Understanding Contemporary China retains all the useful features of the previous editions, but has been thoroughly updated to reflect such current issues ...

In this analysis of the result of China's economic transformation, the author focuses on regional comparisons within China, exploring the uneven distribution of natural and ...