Part of the Regional Handbooks of Economic Development: Prospects onto the 21st Century series which examine the key issues affecting the economic growth of regions in Asia. The series is designed to help the general reader understand a variety of complex factors - social, political and economic - that will bear on a region's economic growth as it moves into the 21st century.

Examines key issues affecting the economic growth of the region.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Each volume in the series examines key issues affecting the economic growth of the region. The series is designed to help the general reader understand a variety of complex factors - social, political and economic - that will bear on a region's economic growth. The Handbooks begin with two to three chapters that situate a region's economic conditions and initiatives within an historical and political context. There follow some 20 chapter-length essays, each prepared by a recognised expert in the field, analysing such factors as population, natural resources, foreign trade, banking and...

The Regional Handbooks of Economic Development series provides accessible overviews of countries within their larger domestic and international contexts, focusing on the relations among regions as they meet the challenges of the twenty first century.
The series allows the non-specialist student to explore a wide range of complex factors-social and political as well as economic-that affect the growth of developing regions in Asia, Europe, and South America. Each Handbook provides an overview chapter discussing the region's economic conditions within an historical and...