Table of Contents

Introduction to the East-West Pendulum The Roots of Chinese Culture Differing Responses to the West Risk and Reward Analysis of Asian Countries Today Country-by-Country Risk Analysis Emerging Asian Capital Markets A Forecast for Asia to the Year 2000 Bibliography Index

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This book thoroughly analyzes the recent rapid development of capital markets in the Asia-Pacific region. George looks at the history, culture, and religions of the people of each country in the area and he explains how they have reacted to contact with the West during the past century. He examines the current economic situation of each country in the Asia-Pacific region and forecasts their growth for the next decade.

About the Author

ROBERT LLOYD GEORGE, great-grandson of the former British prime minister David Lloyd George, was educated at Eton, where he was a King's Scholar, and at Oxford. He has spent the past ten years in Hong Kong and from 1984 to 1991 he was Managing Director of Indosuez Asiz Investment Services Limited where, from small beginnings, he built a business with U.S. $1 billion under management. He has established a number of Asian country funds, including Asian Growth Fund (1986), the Siam Fund (1988), the Malacca Fund (1989), and the Himalayan Fund (1990), and is a recognized authority on Asia's emerging capital markets. In January 1992, he launched an independent investment management company, Lloyd George Management Limited, based in Hong Kong, to advise investors on developing Asian markets. Robert Lloyd George is the author of A Guide to Asian Stockmarkets (1989), and he has lectured widely on this subject.