HOW COUNTRIES COMPETE(经济全球化时代的国家竞争)

Vietor, an academic, argues that government strategy matters in setting the direction and creating the climate for a nation's economic development and profitable private enterprise. Drawing from history, economic analysis, and extensive interviews, he examines different governments' approaches to growth and development leading to success or failure in the context of their unique social, economic, cultural, and historic influences. The author considers the current environment and suggests a future direction for China, India, Japan, Singapore, the U.S., Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa. He explores at length the high growth in Asia; structural adjustments of institutions and other problems in South America, Africa and the Middle East; and deficits, debt, and stagnation in the developed world. He tells us "Riyadh and Mumbai are no longer very far from New York and Brussels, instantaneously [connected] by Internet--a single global economy with increasingly integrated markets, political problems, and social issues." Although all country-risk analysts may not agree with Vietor, he offers a valuable perspective. Mary Whaley.

INTRODUCTION Countries Compete
ONE Development Strategy and Structure
Part I Pathways to Asian High Growth
　TWO Japan's Economic Miracle
　THREE Singapore, Inc
　FOUR China: The Pragrnauc State
　FIVE India on the Move
Part II The Difficulties of Structural Adjustment
　SiX Mexico: Incomplete Transition
　SEVEN South Africa: Getting in GEAR
　EIGHT Saudi Arabia: Modernization Versus Westernization
　NINE Institutional Collapse and Recovery in Russia
　TEN European Integration and Italian Competitiveness
　ELEVEN Japan: Beyond the Bubble
　TWELVE Managing the American Dream
　CONCLUSION Trajectories of Globalization
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author