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Leapfrogging Development in Emerging Asia by Peter Ho Pdf
This book examines the opportunities and constraints of environmental leapfrogging in Asia by zooming in on several country cases: China, Vietnam, Singapore and Taiwan. The world has witnessed the profound transformation of China, Vietnam, Taiwan and Singapore from impoverished developing regions into strong and internationally competitive economies. However, it has become obvious that their rapid development has come at a price. Contrary to their economic successes, these Asian economies have been much less successful in terms of ecological sustainability and environmental protection. Mega-cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Ho Chi Minh City suffer from increased air pollution, traffic congestion and a boom in the generation of solid waste. The rapid industrialisation poses a dual challenge to the state. "Doing it right the first time" -- by installing clean technologies, developing the institutional capacity and the appropriate governance style to enforce environmental regulations- could lead to "leapfrogging", the development process and building industrial economies that are both competitive and more sustainable than economies with an older industrial base.
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa by Keijiro Otsuka,Kaoru Sugihara Pdf
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
Sustainable Asia by Patrick Schroeder,Kartika Anggraeni,Silvia Sartori,Uwe Weber Pdf
In the emerging narrative of sustainable development in Asia, the essential challenge is to reduce the use of natural resources and environmental degradation alongside the increasing demand for goods and services. To achieve this, Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015, aims at reconciling the three goals of minimising the extraction of natural resources from the environment, limiting waste and emissions over the life cycle of goods and services and improving human development and wellbeing. Sustainable Asia: Supporting the Transition to Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asian Developing Countries provides an overview and analysis of the current status of SCP in Asian developing countries. The book focuses on projects supported by the EU-funded SWITCH-Asia Programme, a regional development cooperation programme promoting the adoption of SCP practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consumer groups in Asia since 2007. For readers looking for a comprehensive introduction to the topic of SCP together with a detailed analysis of the current developmental situation in various Asian developing countries and key sectors such as manufacturing, tourism, renewable energy and agriculture, this book is an invaluable tool. The book examines in detail the SCP approaches and innovative solutions demonstrated by the SWITCH-Asia supported projects in Asia and thus serves as a reference for practitioners, researchers and policymakers alike.
Economic Catch-up and Technological Leapfrogging by Keun Lee Pdf
This book elaborates upon the dynamic changes to Korean firms and the economy from the perspective of catch-up theory. The central premise of the book is that a latecomer’s sustained catch-up is not possible by simply following the path of the forerunners but by creating a new path or ‘leapfrogging’. In this sense, the idea of catch-up distinguishes itself from traditional views that focus on the role of the market or the state in development.
Development Centre Seminars The Future of Asia in the World Economy by OECD,Asian Development Bank Pdf
Based on scenarios produced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the OECD Development Centre, the authors of this report consider ways in which long-term Asian growth can be consolidated to the benefit of the global economy as a whole.
Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific by Rupert Maclean,Shanti Jagannathan,Jouko Sarvi Pdf
Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, which in recent years has been the engine of global economic growth , this volume surveys trends and prospects in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) with particular reference to achieving inclusive growth and the greening of economies. Underlying the increasing pressure for new models of TVET provision is the rapid pace of technological change, demand for a work force which is highly responsive to evolving needs and a transforming market place that calls for higher order skills and lifelong learning. The book proposes a re-engineered, modernized TVET system that fosters an innovative approach which enhances the employability of workers as well as the sustainability of their livelihoods. The book includes contributions from leading policy makers, researchers, and practitioners, including those in the private sector in analyzing and forecasting the most urgent priorities in skills development. The book argues for creative approaches to TVET design and delivery particularly with a view to improve job prospects , and meeting the goals of inclusion, sustainable development and social cohesion. Addressing issues such as the chronic mismatches between skills acquired and actual skills required in the work place, the volume proposes diversified approaches towards workforce development and partnerships with the private sector to improve the quality and relevance of skills development . The new imperatives created by ‘greening’ economies and responses required in skills development and training are addressed. Developing TVET is a high priority for governments in the Asia Pacific region as they seek to achieve long-term sustainable growth since the .continued success of their economic destinies depend on it. The volume also includes an emerging framework for skills development for inclusive and sustainable growth in the Asia and Pacific region.
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious practice to explore how traditional Chinese religio-environmental ethics are actually put into social practice both in China’s past and present. It also examines how Chinese religious teachings offer a wealth of resources to the environmental project of forging new ontologies for humans co-existing with other living beings. Different chapters examine how: Buddhist ontology avoids anthropocentrism, fengshui (Chinese geomancy) can help protect the landscape from economic development, popular religion organizes tree-planting, ancient dream interpretation practices avoided constructing the possessive individual subjectivity of modern consumerism, Buddhist rituals and ethics promoted compassion for animals and modern recycling, Confucian ancestor rituals and tombs have deterred industrial expansion, and also how Daoism’s potential role to deter desertification in northern China was stymied by state operations in contemporary China. A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization. Despite steadily growing interdependencies, individual nations still have specific interests that present obstacles to globalization. While some challenges inspired by the need to coordinate are viewed as inevitable by many, they are less optimistic about prospects for success. Jan-Erik Lane argues that one should focus objectively upon the possibility of failures.Lane analyzes four kinds of challenges to interdependency, all of which are growing in geopolitical relevance. First, countries need to diminish their dependency on fossil fuel and shift to a reliable supply of energy, because fossil fuels are diminishing. Second, environmental degradation must be addressed, because it is accelerating under the strain of earth's population. Lane advocates an ecological footprint approach. Third, a single global market economy and its complexities must be addressed, as national economies are increasingly opened. Finally, as traditional state sovereignty weakens, foreign military intervention in both international and intra-state conflicts increases.Governments are attempting to address these interdependencies, or reply to the challenges they pose, mainly through international organizations and regionalism. These efforts are discussed at length. In addition, problems with international law are reviewed, as Lane warns against the utopian hopes of global constitutionalism. Globalization also examines the potential consequences of failing to address the need for coordination in efforts to address shared global challenges.
Leapfrogging Africa by Reiner Klingholz,Sabine Sütterlin,Alisa Kaps,Catherina Hinz Pdf
In this study, we look at the potential for development leaps in Africa in three key sectors that provided the basis for socioeconomic development around the world: health, education and agriculture. Advances in these sectors increase the human capital, create jobs and economic opportunities and have a positive influence on each other. Healthy and well-fed children can learn better; hygiene and better medical care diminish infant mortality, which reduces the desire for a large number of children; education for women promotes gender equality and causes birth rates to fall further. This creates a population structure under which the economy can grow particularly well: a demographic dividend becomes possible.
Governance Institutions And Economic Development: Emerging China, India, East Asia And Brazil by Roy Kartik C,Kar Sandip Pdf
"Roy's book is a rich and detailed study of various facets of economic and social development in ten countries, both democratic and authoritarian. Researchers and students will find here a wealth of information and statistics that can be mined to explore fundamental questions around state interventionism and modes of governance, around democratisation, authoritarianism and economic development, around the factors driving the differential developmental performance of specific countries, and around the desirability of economic growth at all costs. It also provides a very useful starting-point for considering the future of Asia as China's economic, political and military strength continues to grow." Jude A Howell Professor London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK From the Foreword With over three decades worth of research and analysis, Roy compares ten countries — India; Brazil; Indonesia; China; Japan; South Korea; Singapore; Vietnam; Thailand; and, Malaysia — in the role of the state in economic development. Comprising of a rich body of work on state intervention and developmental states, Roy postulate on the idea of 'virtuous' and 'vicious' interventionist states. Contents: Readership: Researchers in economic development and those studying the role of governance in economic development. Keywords: Governance;Economic Development;India;Brazil;Indonesia;China;Japan;South Korea;Singapore;Vietnam;Thailand;Malaysia;Developmental Economic;Interventionalist States;Virtuous;ViciousReview:0
Asian Development Bank,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre
Author : Asian Development Bank,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre Publisher : Development Centre for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Page : 236 pages File Size : 44,5 Mb Release : 1998 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : STANFORD:36105021272831
The Future of Asia in the World Economy by Asian Development Bank,Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre Pdf
This book is a calmer look at Asian economies than has usually been produced in the midst of the current frenzy about financial crises among the Asian Tigers, and a somewhat more reassuring one (without being overly optimistic).
Green Urbanism in Asia by Peter Newman,Anne Matan Pdf
The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations and first signs of green urbanism in Asia and suggests they may be the guiding light for the rest of the world. The authors highlight seven archetypal cities exhibiting green urbanism: the renewable energy city, the bioregional carbon neutral city, the distributed city, the biophilic city, the eco-efficient city, the place-based city and the sustainable transport city. The book is a must-read for all who are concerned with the future of our cities as it instills hope that a greener urban future is possible. Contents:IntroductionWhat is Green Urbanism?The Renewable Energy CityThe Bioregional Carbon Neutral CityThe Distributed CityThe Biophilic CityThe Eco-efficient CityThe Place-based CityThe Sustainable Transport CityConclusions: Will Asian Cities Take Over the Green Urbanism Agenda? Readership: Professionals in urban design, town planning, energy, transport, sustainable development, architecture and landscape, students studying sustainable urban design and development, as well as academics and researchers interested in cultural and urban studies. Keywords:Green Urbanism;Sustainability;Innovation Waves;Renewable Energy City;Bioregional Carbon Neutral City;Distributed City;Biophilic City;Eco-efficient City;Place-based City;Sustainable Transport City;Climate Change;Peak Oil;Resilience in CitiesKey Features:First to apply the concept of ‘green urbanism’ to Asian cities, extending previously written works on green urbanism from Europe and Australia to AsiaExplores the emerging trends of green urbanism in Asia, in particular, how the changing urban economy affects cities and their sustainabilityInstead of detailing sustainability problems, the authors highlight how these problems are being understood and how cities are taking steps to resolve themUses stories of hope to fire the imagination that a better future is imaginableReviews: "In Green Urbanism in Asia, Newman and Matan have produced an impressive tour de force — the first study of its kind to document and analyze the emerging green urban trends, amazing projects and wonderful stories of innovation found in Asian cities. Thoroughly researched and with remarkable detail, this path-breaking study will be the essential starting point and standard reference for years to come for anyone interested in understanding this fast-urbanizing part of the world. Newman and Matan show us what is possible, that there are compelling models for effectively integrating nature, sustainability and quality of life. These emerging green Asian tigers, so eloquently described and celebrated by Newman and Matan, point the way for cities around the world, and offer hopeful and inspiring antidotes to the sense of global gloom that often prevails." Dr Timothy Beatley Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, and Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia "Asian urbanism is THE story of the 21st century world-system: never before in history have we seen the speed, scale, and complexity of urbanisation that we are witnessing today across the whole Asian continent and island archipelagos. To date green urbanism is an oxymoron but this book promises to be part of a new wave of innovations of ideas, policy regimes, and practices that can change from an empty slogan of property developers flogging gated communities to transforming all our cities into liveable and sustainable ecosystems. We had better hope so for the long-term welfare of our world as a whole is now in the hands of this generation of Asian cities and their makers! This book is therefore not only timely but necessary. It is a handbook for students and practitioners of the urban alike. Let us all get working, book in hand!" Dr Trevor Hogan Deputy Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia "This book is in a class of its own. It shows that Asia is in the forefront. Most new breakthroughs take place here, populations ask for it, and politicians respond. The book takes the jump from telling that we should green our cities to demonstrate how it can be done. That is the core of the book: How to do it." Prof Joergen O Moeller Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University and Copenhagen Business School
China's Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up by Keun Lee Pdf
After the miraculous economic growth known as the Beijing Consensus, China is now facing a slowdown. The attention has moved to the issue of the middle income trap. This book deals with this interesting issue in the context of China. It also discusses China's limitations and future prospects, especially after the rise of a new "cold war" between China and the US, namely the question of whether China would fall into another trap called the "Thucydides trap", or conflict with the existing hegemon as a rising power. In sum, this book plays around three key terms, namely, the Beijing Consensus, the Middle Income Trap, and the Thucydides trap, and applies a Schumpeterian approach to these concepts. It also conducts a comparative analysis that examines China from an "economic catch-up" perspective. An economic catch-up starts from learning and imitating a forerunner, but finishing the race successfully requires taking a different path along the road. This act is also known as leapfrogging, which implies a latecomer doing something different from, and often ahead of, a forerunner. Technological leapfrogging may lead to technological catch-up, which means reducing the technological gap, and then finally to economic catch-up in living standards (per capita income) and economic size (GDP: economic power). This linkage from technological leapfrogging and catch-up to economic catch-up corresponds exactly with a similar linkage from the Beijing Consensus to escaping (or not) the middle income and the Thucydides traps. One conclusion from this book is that China's successful rise as a global industrial power has been due to its strategy of technological leapfrogging, which has enabled China to move beyond the middle income trap and possibly the Thucydides trap, although at a slower speed.
