Preparing Students for Graduate Study: To Hit the Ground Running a Guide for Teachers

Education & Teaching

Bartlett, Annie

Holzkneht, A.

Cumming Thorn A.

Schools & Teaching

Asia Pacific Pr

Preparing Students for Graduate Study: To Hit the Ground Running a Students Workbook

Huang (Salomon Smith Barney and Citibank) analyzes the changes in the state-owned enterprise (SOE) and state-operated commercial bank (SOCB) structures in China and makes policy recommendations for encouraging further reform towards a market economy. He argues that the SOEs' productivity growth has not been significant in the reform period and that rising real wages has resulted in a loss of profitability. The major factor for productivity growth is said to be exposure to market competition. In the SOCBs, Huang argues that both excessive intervention and lack of discipline exist and are mutually reinforcing. Here, he also recommends exposure to market competition. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

China's Last Steps Across The River: Enterprise And Banking Reforms

Business & Money

Huang, Yiping

International

"Papua New Guinea is the world's most unlikely and complex democracy. The first marvel is that it is there after 26 years of excitement, turbulence, agony and occasional ecstasy. The second marvel is that it is working through a demanding program of reform of economic and political institutions. Papua New Guinea still has its democracy because enough Papua New Guineans of goodwill were there to defend important institutions, to risk defeat in pushing for reform against the odds, and to give support to leaders seeking to caulk the holes in what has sometimes seemed to be a sinking ship. Some of these people at any time were in parliament and the political leadership of government, some in the bureaucracy, some in business, and some, the largest numbers, spread widely through civil society. Sir Anthony Siaguru - Tony - has been all of these people in all of these places. He has been the decathlon gold medallist in Papua New Guinea's national life since independence, earning points in each of many events. These essays have been selected from the weekly Post-Courier newspaper columns and from speeches in Tony's years outside official life, mostly in the late 1980s and after the return from London in 1996. This is a highly readable volume, clearly written, spiced with good humor and with points of reference drawn from the experience of the whole of humanity. It leaves the reader with a sense that, despite the difficulties, democracy is the most natural as well as the best of all the imperfect ways of organizing the affairs of humanity in Papua New Guinea." Ross Garnaut

In-House in Papua New Guinea

History

Siaguru, Anthony

Asia

In this study, Mulgan analyzes the reasons why, despite broad public support, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi has not achieved the sweeping economic reforms he first proposed in April of 2001. She explains how Japan's traditional policymaking process has thwarted the Prime Minister's best intentions and contends that revolutionary political change is necessary before Japan's economic recovery can begin. Mulgan teaches at the U. of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Japan's Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform

Politics & Social Sciences

Mulgan, Aurelia George

Social Sciences

This book is the result of an invitation to Griffin (economics, U. of California at Riverside), extended by the United Nations Development Programme, to bring a team of economists to Mongolia and write a report on how to integrate equity and poverty reduction issues in overall development strategy. He and the other contributors advocate for a strong state role in encouraging investment. Other major themes include and emphasis on growth and employment, and the complementarity of growth and equity. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Poverty Reduction in Mongolia

Economics

Joining a growing number of observers concerned about China's economic metamorphosis in the past few decades, Garnaut (economics, The Australian National U.), Song (economics and government, The Australian National U.), and contributors from Australia and China closely examine how far China has come and whether it will continue on the same path. Their topics include an overview of China's economic success, its toll, and the effects it has had at a regional level; structural adjustments in China's industry and marketing policies, particularly in grain; changes in wages; and the transition from neophyte to powerful player in the regional and global marketplace, including relations with the WTO. They also examine how domestic issues such as poverty and inequality, privatization, and incentives have affected growth. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

China: is Rapid Growth Sustainable?

Against the prediction of proponents of the Washington Consensus, the economic program of Viet Nam has been fairly successful at promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty during the 1990s. This work describes the Vietnamese programs and assesses their impacts, noting that the economic indicators serve as a lesson that core assumptions of the neoliberal Washington Consensus are wrong. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Vietnam: A Transition Tiger?

Brian Van Arkadie

Raymond Mallon

Chairman and director respectively of the China Economy and Business Program (Australian National U.), Garnaut and Song argue a productive market economy in China, integrated deeply into the international economy, is vitally important to the health of the global and regional economy. They do not provide an index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

China: New Engine of World Growth

The similar characteristics and early growth patterns of the agricultural sectors of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand, invite comparative study. Focusing on the issue of growth, Akiyama (senior advisor, Foundation for Advanced Study on International Development) and Larson (senior economist, World Bank's Research Group) present 12 papers that comparatively explore questions of endowments, technology, accumulation of productive factors, policy, advocacy in the rural sectors, and other questions of agricultural growth. Thematic explorations are complemented by country-specific case studies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

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