This book looks at the main factors which have contributed to the strikingly strong growth of Asian economies in the last twenty-five years. The author then examines the inequalities generated by economic growth, before considering the dynamics of the four different types of political system which have evolved in Asia: veiled authoritarianism;
Introduction - Factors in Economic Growth - Economic Policy - Dividing the Spoils - Veiled Authoritarianisms: Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia - Market Stalinism: Burma, China, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam - Emerging Bourgeois Democracies: Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand - Elite Democracies: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka - Index
