Trade and industrial development in East Asia
Subtitle: catching up or falling behind
By: Peter C.Y. Chow
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781849804820; 9781849804837
Subjects: Commerce; Industrialization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. East Asian models of development; title: 2. Catching up or falling behind hypothesis I: trade competitiveness between the leader and followers on all manufactured exports; title: 3. Catching up or falling behind hypothesis II: trade competitiveness on exports by technology levels between the leader and followers; title: 4. Trade similarity index and the level of development; title: 5. The dynamics of changing trade structures: export sophistication index; title: 6. Sources of export growth: a constant market share analysis; title: 7. Trade-investment nexus and intra-industry trade; title: 8. Is East Asia a "natural trade bloc"? The trade complementarity index, the intensity index, and the bias index; title: 9. East Asian economic integration and its impacts on regional and global economies; title: 10. Conclusion.