The Asia Crisis

In the past sixteen months, the world has been preoccupied with the Asian economic and financial crisis and its contagion. Governments, businesses, chambers of commerce and industry, research institutes, universities, and individuals worldwide have all been concerned with these problems and, more importantly, with the prospects in Asian and world economies in the short- and long-term after the crisis. The book contains soundly researched analyses and robust and databased forecasts by international experts in the areas and provides in a concise and well argued manner a deep understanding of the fundamental factors affecting the direction of development of growth, trade, investment and business in Asian and world economies up to 2010. The book is a must-have for all interested in these important issues in our modern society.

Autorentext

Tran Van Hoa is Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Zusammenfassung
The book contains soundly researched analyses and robust and databased forecasts by international experts in the areas and provides in a concise and well argued manner a deep understanding of the fundamental factors affecting the direction of development of growth, trade, investment and business in Asian and world economies up to 2010.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors The Asian Crisis and World Prospects: An Overview; T.Van Hoa The Asian Crisis and Prospects After; T.Van Hoa The Financial and Economic Crisis in Thailand: Policy Responses, Social Impact and Counter Measures; K.Limskul Asian Economic Crisis and the Crisis of Analysis: A Critical Analysis Through Buddhist Economies; A.Puntasen Asian Economic Crisis and the Crisis of Analysis: Western, Asian and Buddhist Economics; T.Van Hoa Japan and Prospects for Asian and World Economies; T.Van Hoa Indonesia: The Road from Economic and Social Collapse; C.Harvie Malaysia: Current Problems and Prospects to 2010; F.H.Huynh Foreign Trade of Asian Transnational Countries: The World Competitiveness and its Development; Y.Zhao & L.Jingping China: East Asia's Next Economic Domino?; C.Harvie Where Do We Go From Here?; T.Van Hoa Index