1st Edition

South Asia in the New World Order The Role of Regional Cooperation

By Shahid Javed Burki Copyright 2011
212 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, the US and China, at the centre, it will be multipolar with eight centres of economic activity,... Read more
1. Prologue  2. Challenges and Opportunities  3. Reshaping the Global Economy: The Dawn of the Asian Century?  4. History’s Many Burdens  5. South Asia May Have Turned the Corner  6. The South Asian Way: A Non-Conventional Approach to the Making of Economic Policies  7. A Multilayered World: Regional Integration as a Determinant of Sustained National Growth  8. South Asia: Future Growth Scenarios With or Without Integration

Biography

Shahid Javed Burki is a professional economist. He was previously Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank.