Meta-Analysis of Finance and Growth in Asia: Making Sense of Globalization

This Palgrave Pivot offers a rigorous meta-analysis of the finance–growth relationship in Asia. Economists Amar Anwar and Ichiro Iwasaki highlight how financial development and liberalization affect growth differently in East Asia than in South Asia. Analyzing 759 estimates from 79 empirical case studies, the authors explore how financial development and liberalization affect economic growth in Asia, offering information to assist policy proposals and research. 

Meta-Analysis of Finance and Growth in Asia is essential reading for researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in financial reform and sustainable economic development.

Amar Anwar is Associate Professor of Economics and Management Science in the Shannon School of Business at Cape Breton University in Canada. He also serves as Visiting Professor in the International SEPT Competence Center at Universität Leipzig (Leipzig University) in Germany.

Ichiro Iwasaki is Project Professor in the Department of Law, Economics and Management at Okinawa University in Japan. In addition to this, he is Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, also located in Japan.