Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy Market and Technology Over 50 Years

This book presents an overview of Asia’s growth and transformation in the last 50 years and discusses key policy lessons that can be drawn from the region’s experiences.. It summarizes underlying factors that can explain Asia’s development performance as well as the large variations across the region and time periods. In particular the book focuses on the role of policy market and technology in promoting structural transformation human capital development trade and investment infrastructure macroeconomic stability poverty reduction gender equality environmental sustainability development finance and regional cooperation and integration.