This is a completely revised edition of a unique and successful book which integrates the inter-related issues of economic development, transfer of technology, and the preparedness of countries and enterprises to receive and assimilate new technologies. Based on a first-hand study, the authors provide a comprehensive and comparative analysis of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and India, and discuss the respective experiences of these four economies with structural adjustment and financial reforms. In this new edition the authors take into account the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and outline the possible steps that can be taken to prevent such occurrences in the future. They advocate some additional measures to encourage technological growth and development while providing the most recent statistics./-//-/This book will be an indispensable resource for policy-makers, planners, HRD managers, CEOs and all those involved with technology transfer, as also for students of economics, business management and human resource development.

For four decades the UN has attempted to foster development in the countries of the Southern hemisphere. The book provides a synopsis of these efforts, from the Brandt Commission Report to Boutros Boutros Ghali's Agenda for Development. It presents opposing arguments in parceling responsibility for the growing gap between the North and the South and details the Millennium Development Goals and assesses their successes and failures so far. Prof. Milkias provides suggestions for closing the gap, for removing the debt burden that is currently crushing the nations of the South, and for relieving the poverty, ignorance and disease that plague so much of humanity.

Based on case studies in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and India, the authors provide a comparative analysis of these countries' economies and their respective experiences with structural adjustment and financial reforms, highlighting the importance of "human resource" capacities and skill levels, infrastructure development, and investment policies in increasing international competitiveness. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book is about the restructuring of industry in ten East Asian economies at the start of the twenty-first century. It examines the dynamic aspects of the region's industrial structures -- the changes occurring with globalisation fuelled by liberalisation and by a paradigm shift from industrial technology to information technology. The traditional "flying geese" concept is less relevant to explaining the economic and industrial development in the region as the pattern has become less predictable.