South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity. Korea’s achievement of moving from one of the world’s poorest…

Trade and capital are important in the Asia region. Trade in the APEC region has been increasing, but the large rise in China’s exports has…

Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come…

This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system…

The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of

Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and…

This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about…

Japanese Economic Development presents three distinct approaches to understanding how and why Japan made the transition from a relatively low-income country mainly focused on agriculture…

This book discusses the political economy of the SARS epidemic and its impact on human resources in East Asia, as it occurred in 2003. The…

The Korean Developmental State is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of processes of state and economic restructuring in South Korea since the 1997 crisis. The…

One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea’s transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent…