An understanding of the determinants of savings is crucial for understanding the development process in the Third World. Asian countries merit special attention in this context insofar as in the last two decades gross national savings as a percentage of GNP have been much more buoyant in the...

The relationship between income inequality, poverty and economic growth for 12 Asian developing countries is examined by analysing the countries both in cross section and overtime. The study concludes that the Kuznets hypothesis for a systematic relationship between income inequality and growth...

Key Features:First book to offer a comprehensive view of the future outlook of Asian economies from such a wide range of different perspectivesProvides projections of which countries will reach millennium development objectives and which ones will fail, and whyDetails the emerging threat to...