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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: To spark development in poor nations, increase agricultural output by encouraging household farming.
Chapter 3: A well-executed, far-reaching land reform is essential to successfully promoting household farming.
Chapter 4: Protectionist policies are needed to enable the shift to a manufacturing economy.
Chapter 5: Governments must invest in technological development and strongly back entrepreneurs.
Chapter 6: Successful industrialization requires a system that compels businesses to export and fosters competition.
Chapter 7: Early financial deregulation can stifle development.
Chapter 8: Rolling back flawed communist policies set China’s economic development in motion.
Chapter 9: China has made great progress, yet still faces many problems.
Description
How Asia Works examines the economic development of nine Asian countries and, in the process, sketches a blueprint for other developing nations seeking to achieve sustainable economic growth. Joe Studwell explains why some Asian economies have boomed while others have fallen behind, revealing what history has proved works – and what doesn’t.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in developing economies and international economics
- Asian history enthusiasts