Asia is widely regarded as having benefited most from the dynamic growth effect of the recent wave of globalization. By examining mechanisms at work in the globalization–poverty nexus through specific case studies reflecting different settings, the book seeks to find ways to rediscover and resume a pattern of shared growth in Asia.

RIMJHIM M. AGGARWAL Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA JONNA P. ESTUDILLO Faculty Fellow, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and Associate Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan TOMOKI FUJII Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore XAVIER GINÉ Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank NANAK KAKWANI Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia STEFAN KLONNER Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Cornell University, USA K.S. KAVI KUMAR Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India ZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, University of Auvergne, France JUSTIN YIFU LIN Professor and founding Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, China PEILIN LIU Associate Research Fellow, Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council, China MAHVASH SAEED QURESHI Overseas Development Institute, UK DAVID ROLAND-HOLST Adjunct Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA YASUYUKI SAWADA Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan HYUN H. SON Economist, Asian Development Bank BRINDA VISWANATHAN Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.