TY - BOOK AU - MASCARENHAS R C TI - Comparative political economy of East and South Asia: a critique of development policy and management SN - 0333735749 (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Macmillan KW - EAST ASIA KW - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT KW - ECONOMIC POLICY KW - SOUTH ASIA N2 - Study which tries to identify why East Asian states have been able to develop political and administrative institutions capable of formulating and implementing development policies while countries of South Asia were not. Provides a comparison of the Indian and Japanese models of government, and attributes the success of east Asian countries to strong state compared with soft state typical of south Asia ER -