This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and...

This article assesses the impact of the trade reform on Mexican manufactured exports and evaluates the different factors explaining the major rise in the sector that occurred, particularly since 1985. It describes the contents of the trade reform, considers alternative explanations of the rise...