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The purpose of this introductory chapter is twofold. First, the chapter provides an overview of some key economic themes in contemporary times and the spectacular rise of Asia. Next, the chapter provides an overview of the twelve remaining chapters that comprise this book. These chapters address one or more research questions on four topics. These four topics are (i) poverty, (ii) energy and climate change, (iii) money and macroeconomics, and (iv) ageing, education, production, and the internet.
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The word “region” frequently refers to a geographical entity that is smaller than a nation. Even so, it is important to understand that this is not the only way in which this word has been used in the literature. Researchers have sometimes used the word region to refer to a nation and, on occasion, this word has also been used to refer to supranational geographic entities such as the European Union or North America. Given the broad subject matter of and the wide interpretation of sustainable development employed in this book, the present and the following chapters utilize all three meanings of the word region. The context ought to make clear to the reader the sense in which this word is being utilized in each of the individual chapters that follow.
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Pezzey (1997, p. 448) notes that there were more than 50 definitions of sustainability in 1989 and that it would be possible to find more than “five thousand definitions” in 1997.
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See Bloom (2011) for more on this idea. This idea is also discussed in greater detail in the chapter “Educational Attainment and Learning in India, 2004–2012” of this book.
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The first author acknowledges financial support from the Gosnell endowment at RIT. The usual absolution applies.
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Batabyal, A.A., Nijkamp, P. (2017). Introduction to Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia. In: Batabyal, A., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27589-5_1
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