East Asia is the most competitive and dynamic industrial region in the developing world. This is universally acknowledged but not yet fully understood. In particular, the different strategies the Tiger economies used to access and absorb foreign technologies, and the interaction of technology imports with domestic technological effort, have not been sufficiently explored. interaction between foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological activity in building export competitiveness. The book covers China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand,...

This work asks whether international trade, or more broadly globalization, increases growth? Notwithstanding the debates, there are still many questions, old and new, needing to be explored in order to improve our understanding of the consequences of globalization. It addresses some of these questions.