Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

by J.W. Harrington, P.W. Daniels (Editor)

Overview

Until the 1990s, industrialization was the dominant development paradigm for the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, advanced services (finance, business or 'producer services', information and creative services) have become deeply embedded in the processes of economic growth and change in the region. This rapid tertiary expansion is fundamentally restructuring national and regional economies and urban form in line with the introduction of advanced production systems, national modernization programmes and the globalization strategies of governments. Services are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use change. This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented and regional and national perspectives on services and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317056942
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Series:	The Dynamics of Economic Space
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Professor Daniels is Dean of Physical Sciences and Engineering and Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Professor Harrington is in the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Services and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Introduction and Overview, Peter W. Daniels, James W. Harrington; Part I Dynamics of Economic Spaces: The Services Dimension; Chapter 2 Change in the Agglomeration of Service Firms in a Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of Graphic Design Firms in Melbourne 1981–2001, Peter Elliott, Kevin O’Connor; Chapter 3 Development of the ‘Third Form’ of the Car-making Producer Services Industry in Shanghai, China and its Locational Factors, Yufang Shen; Chapter 4 Metropolitan Cities as the Innovation Centers of Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: The Case of Seoul in Korea, Ji-Sun1* Choi; Chapter 5 Location Patterns of Information Technology Services in Japan, Noboru Hayashi; Part II External Regulation of Services within Value Chains; Chapter 6 State, Market and the Growth of Service Industries in Metropolitan Guangzhou, Fiona F. Yang, George C.S. Lin; Chapter 7 SIA and Singapore: Competition, Changes in Organization and Technologies and the Impacts on Economic Development, Shuang Yann Wong; Chapter 8 1*The authors acknowledge the financial support from Ministry of Science and Technology of China for the research conducted (research grant No. 2003DGQ2D059)., Shuguang Liu, Guogang Ren; Chapter 9 Transformation of an Industry Stimulated by Local Economic Growth Policy: The Case of the SHOCHU (Liquor) Industry in Japan, Atsuhiko Takeuchi, Hideo Mori, Koshi Hachikubo; Part III Internal Regulation and Policies for Service; Chapter 10 Reluctant State, Decentralized Markets, and Under Developed Communities: The Construction of the Futures Trading Industry in Taiwan, Pin-Hsien Chen, Jinn-yuh Hsu; Chapter 11 Networked Governance for Global Economic Part Icipation: The Case of New Zealand’s Largest Service City, Steffen Wetzstein; Chapter 12 Lowering the Professional Frontier: A Service Market in Development in Ahmedabad, India, Harald Bekkers;

Editorial Reviews

'This book extends our knowledge of service sector industries in Asia-Pacific countries. Essays from China, Korea, Australia, Japan and elsewhere illustrate the increasing importance of design services, information technology and other business services in this dynamic region. In sum, this important collection confirms a rich diversity of public policy towards services and how this sector is intertwined with goods production in Asia-Pacific.' David Edgington, University of British Columbia, Canada '...this volume provides new insights into a topic that is too often overlooked by economists and geographers. The contributed papers will likely inspire scholars to conduct more rigorous research on this topic.' Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

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