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Once viewed as an environmental hazard to the planet, East Asia is now at the forefront of pro-environmental policymaking. The region's progress has been both remarkable and surprising given the pro-business orientation of its political systems and their ideological diversity. Through a focus on three environmental policy areas exhibiting different levels of success, this Element shows how governments in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have been able to craft pro-environmental policy by working in collaboration with business and societal interests. The evolution of the region's eco-developmental states has resulted in exceptional progress in the areas of green technology and green finance, mixed outcomes in pollution management, and negligible improvement in addressing environmental justice. As the planet seeks guidance in addressing our collective climate crisis, East Asia offers both hope and caution for how we can craft pro-environmental policies in diverse political contexts.

"This book presents a comprehensive overview of the key issues relating to law and development in Asia. It discusses the different models of law and development, including both the developmental state model of the 1960s and the neo-liberal model of the 1980s, and shows how development has worked out in practice in relation to these models in a range of Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Singapore, India and Mongolia. Particular themes examined include constitutionalism, judicial and legal reform, labour law, the growing importance of private rights, foreign investment and the international law of development. "--

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1. Overview -- 2. Growth and Development in East Asia and the OECD Countries -- Part I. Institutional Frameworks -- 3. The Chinese Kaleidoscope: Chinese Economic Development in the Light of the New Institutional Theories -- 4. On Lao Tzu: His Impact on Chinese Thinking -- 5. Value Systems and Organization of Scholarship and Research in East and West -- 6. Illiberal Democracy in Southeast Asia -- 7. Beyond Dire Straits? Transnationalization and Renationalization in the Southern Growth Triangle -- 8. Land-Use Controls and Economic Freedom: the Diverging Histories of Singapore and Taipei -- Part II. Environmental and Economic Constraints -- 9. Ecological Sustainability -- 10. Pollution Transitions and Economic Growth in Asia -- 11. Social Security Systems in Southeast Asia: Are They Sustainable? -- 12. Stable Expansion for the Chinese Economy: Lessons from International Experience -- Part III. Cross-Border Networks -- 13. The Complexity of Self-Organizing East Asian Networks -- 14. Asia Pacific and European Patterns of Intra-and Extra-Regional Trade Compared -- 15. Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment -- 16. Business Integration across the Hong Kong±Chinese Border: Patterns and Explanations in the Garment Industry -- 17. Illiberal and Successful? In Search of Sustainable Regional Growth in Authoritarian States -- 18. Japanese Transition to Knowledge Arenas: an Infrastructural Perspective -- 19. Emerging Knowledge Networks in Eastern Asia -- Index.

"Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical characterization of the composition of GDP levels and growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances, the composition of national savings, and the determinants of the evolution of household saving rates. During 2000-08, household saving rates (relative to household income) have risen gradually in China and India but fallen sharply in Korea. Corporate savings have surged across Asia during this period, becoming the main component of gross national savings in the region. In terms of sheer magnitudes, China's national savings and current account surpluses dominate the region's saving-investment balances. China accounts for just under half of GDP in Asia ex-Japan, but accounts for 60 percent of total gross national savings and nearly 90 percent of the current account surplus of the region. Finally, I discuss some policy implications that come out of the analysis on how to shift the patterns of growth, especially in China, from a welfare-enhancing perspective"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Since the Korean War, United States policies in Asia have gradually developed along the lines of the "containment" doctrine so successfully applied in Europe after 1947. Washington has increasingly seen the problem of Chinese power in Asia in much the same light as that posed by Soviet power in Europe and has behaved as if both threats could be contained by basically the same kinds of responses. In both Asia and Europe, containment measures have reflected a perceived need for complementary interaction between military policies and aid programs in order to prevent aggression by Communist powers and to foster the internal stability of nations in the area. Although difficulties have arisen in seeking the best balance of these components of the containment policy in Europe, most of the essential American objectives in the West have been attained.