@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674726130,
      author = {Perkins, Dwight H.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470607},
      title = {East Asian development foundations and strategies /  [electronic resource] :},
      abstract = {"Taking both a historical and a comparative view, Perkins  explores the nature of economic growth in East Asia. He  focuses on ten sites in East and Southeast Asia that  achieved a substantial degree of economic success: China,  Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia,  Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Secondarily, he discusses  the failures in growth of other countries in the region,  notably the Philippines. He analyzes why several of the  economies of East and Southeast Asia have achieved rates of  growth seldom witnessed elsewhere in the world (with a few  exceptions); why some of the economies in the region have  done better than the others; and why the richest economies  eventually have all slowed down. He examines income  distribution and the places where income inequality  resulted. In looking into the sources for the high rate of  growth, he analyzes how these economies and societies  transformed the living standards of most their citizens"--},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674726130},
      recid = {470607},
      pages = {1 online resource (222 pages).},
}