MACMILLAN Asia-Pacific Transitions

Modern focus on the Asia Pacific has centred on its rapid transformation in the span of a mere two decades. Since the 1997 economic crisis however, attention has now turned to transition issues as the region faces the challenge of global structural transformation that has and will affect the direction of the region's long-term development. Drawing from a range of contributors from several disciplines, this book seeks to capture some of the multifaceted dimensions of these transitions as the region adjusts to new global realities. About the Author AKE E. ANDERSSON Professor, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm MUKUL ASHER Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore PONTUS ABERG Consultant, Temaplan Sweden DAVID F. BATTEN Professor, Temalan Australia MARTIN BECKMANN Professor, Department of Economics, Brown University and Department of Economics, University of Munich HUA CHANG-I Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University JAN ENGBERG Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Umeå University NIKLAS EKLUND Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Umeå University FINN FORSUND Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo JANERIK GIDLUND Professor, Department of Political Science, Umeå University KIYOSHI KOBAYASHI Professor, Graduate School of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania KURT LUNDGREN Professor, National Institute for Working Life, Sweden EDMUND R. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong ZHANG WEIBIN Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore