Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Pradumna B. Rana Издательство: Страниц: 276 ISBN: 9814366501
Описание
We are familiar with Asia's "re-emergence". A recent study by the Asian Development Bank, for example, notes that by 2050 Asia's per capita income would rise six-fold to reach Europe's levels today. Also by then Asia's share of global GDP would have doubled and Asia would have regained the dominant economic position it once held some 300 years ago before the industrial revolution. What is less well-known is that during the previous eras of globalization when Asia was prosperous, Asia was also regionally integrated and globally connected. During the roughly one and half century of colonial period, the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, Asia was divided and fragmented. This unique book argues that now led by the economic dynamism and "re-encountering" between China and India we are witnessing Asia's "re-emergence" and "re-integration" or the "Renaissance of Asia". Asia's prosperity is rising. Also, as in the bygone eras, Asia's integration within itself and the global...
