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Towards A Common Future

Understanding Growth, Sustainability in the Asia-Pacific Region

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Covering a broad region, this title gives a holistic analysis of Asian development as a whole

  • With authors based in South Asia and East Asia, and one author from South Asia but based in East Asia, the breadth of expertise brought to the topic is relatively large

  • By putting ideas of sustainability in dialogue with economic theory, the authors present an heuristic that is novel among analyses of the region

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Arindam Banik, Munim Kumar Barai
      Pages 3-18
  3. India: Elephant Rises at Last

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Is India Key to Asian Financial Integration?

      • Paramita Mukherjee
      Pages 89-105
    3. A Sustainable Business Model: Experiences of Indian Micro Enterprises

      • Rabi N. Kar, Minakshi Kar, Amrita Kaur
      Pages 107-119
    4. Creation of Shared Values by Indian Enterprises

      • Vijay Kumar Kaul
      Pages 121-135
  4. Japan: A Perplexing Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. India-Japan Cultural Distance on the Mottainai Ethics

      • Yasushi Suzuki, Rabi N. Kar
      Pages 155-170
  5. Asian Parallels: Putting Asian Economies in Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
    2. Real Exchange Rate, Trade Balance and Deindustrialization in Indonesia

      • Fithra Faisal Hastiadi, Amelia Nurunnisa
      Pages 273-294

About this book

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region. Each of the countries in the region has various concerns and challenges for its sustainable development, a common goal most of them are trying to achieve at the moment. Interestingly, sustainable development in the region may be critical for achieving sustainable development at the global level as well. With a limited mandate, the book covers some specific developmental issues of ‘the hot spots’ of APR that are regarded to be contributing to their sustainable development. The book also looks at the formation and strengthening of some economic and financial initiatives with the potentials to affect growth and influence economic cooperation and integration of the countries in the region.



Editors and Affiliations

  • International Management Institute, Kolkata, India

    Arindam Banik

  • Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan

    Munim Kumar Barai, Yasushi Suzuki

About the editors

Arindam Banik is the Director and Professor of International Finance and Business at the International Management Institute, Kolkata, India. 

Munim K. Barai is Professor of Finance at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. Degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India. He is a Fulbright Scholar. 

Yasushi Sazuki is Professor of Finance, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. Degree from the University of London. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards A Common Future

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding Growth, Sustainability in the Asia-Pacific Region

  • Editors: Arindam Banik, Munim Kumar Barai, Yasushi Suzuki

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5592-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5591-1Published: 22 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5437-3Published: 12 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5592-8Published: 08 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Economics, Economic Policy, Asian Economics, Development Economics

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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