The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy.

The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have arisen, and further discusses prospects and potentialities of Asian economies given this new economic environment. The book also looks at broader social issues that are both the cause and result of these new and complex economic dynamism in Asia. Understanding the Asian economy cannot be achieved without understanding the new interrelationships and complexities that have evolved from this context, which continue to be driven by drastic changes in technological, demographic, and social structures, among others.

Each of the chapters are titled based on "issues" and are framed in present continuous tense, intended to capture and emphasize the progressiveness of this new dynamism that are transforming the region in a fundamental way.

Kenta Goto is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Kansai University, and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Institute of Research. His research interests include development, global value chains, and the informal economy. He obtained degrees from Keio University, Harvard University, and Kyoto University.

Tamaki Endo is Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saitama University. Her research interests include informal economy, urban development, inequality, and global value chain. She received her PhD in Economics from Kyoto University.

Asei Ito is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. He obtained a PhD from the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University, Japan. His research covers Chinese industrial development, innovation, and outward FDI.