Books in the Routledge Contemporary Asia Series series

Bringing together perspectives from Economics, Development and Area Studies, Geography, Anthropology, and Sociology, the book provides local narratives that shed light on some of the different needs, situations, and realities of minority region development among countries in East and Southeast Asia.

Analyzes contemporary political and economic relations in foreign aid policy between Japan and Africa. This book offers primary questions focusing on Japan's influence in the African continent, reasons for spending its limited resources to further African development, and the way Japan's foreign aid is invested in Africa.

Explains the changing pattern of contentious politics in the democratization process of the two city-states Singapore and Hong Kong. This book explores the causal connections between popular contention and democratization by applying a multi-disciplinary approach, using theoretical insights from the political sciences, sociology and psychology.

Reveals the problems facing knowledge transfer, such as persisting difficulties in communication, technology transfer, and indigenous learning in regional nodes of Nikkei Value Chains and the persistence of earlier patterns of hierarchical coordination in information flows despite the shift towards more horizontal network organization.

What have we learned from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis? Do Thailand's problems suggest that other countries have not learned the appropriate lessons, nor implemented sufficiently corrective measures? This book provides an overview of developments in the main affected countries during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

Explores the trends of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asia and their effects on multilateral regulation of FDI. This book reviews the increasing attraction of FDI and the rise of Asian transnational corporations (TNCs) from an economic perspective. It is suitable for postgraduates in Asian studies, Asian economics and international economics.