Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. Asia and the General Understanding of Development 3
5. Assessment of the Past for Building the Future 4
6. Economic Development and Institutional Complementarities 6
7. Institutions and Freedoms 8
8. Japanese Experience: Public Action and Individual Opportunities 10
9. Human Development: An Eastern Strategy 13
10. The Eastern Strategy and the ChinaIndia Contrast 20
11. Transient Crisis and Endemic Deprivation 24
12. The Recent Crises in East and Southeast Asia 27
13. Vulnerability and Non-monotonic Progress 28
14. Divided We Fall 30
15. Security and Equity 33
16. Role of Democracy 34
17. Security, Asian Crises and the Voice of the Poor 38
18. A Concluding Remark 43