This title was first published in 2003. Emerging Market Economies: Globalization and Development is the result of a comprehensive international research project co-ordinated within the TIGER (Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research). It deals with economic, social and political implications of globalization for the development of emerging market economies and is authored by a host of international scholars from the USA, Chile, Tanzania, UK/Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, China and Japan.

Contents: Part I: Globalization, Transformation and Growth: Globalization and catching-up in emerging market economies, Grzegorz W. Kolodko; Transition as development, László Csaba; Governing incomplete globalization, D. Mario Nuti. Part II: Economic Growth in the More and the Less Globalized Economies: Globalization and economic development: can Sub-Saharan Africa avoid marginalization?, Nguyuru H. I. Lipumba; Globalization and growth in the CIS, Keith Crane and Zbyszko Tabernacki; Reform, growth and slowdown: lessons from Chile, Rodrigo Vergara. Part III: One World, Different Paths of Development: The dual-transformation of China: past 20 years and 50 years ahead, Gang Fan; Is catching-up possible in Europe?, Daniel Daianu; Systemic variety under the conditions of globalization and integration, Tadeusz Kowalik. Part IV: Catching-Up and External Factors of Development: Japanese approach to the transition economies, Masahiro Taguchi; Globalization and the role of foreign banks in economies in transition, Michael Keren and Gur Ofer; Implementing global best practice standards: the fiduciary role of the private sector, George Vojta; Index.

Grzegorz W. Kolodko is Director of the Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER) and Professor at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management in Warsaw, Poland. He has also been Deputy Premier and the Minister of Finance of Poland since July 2002.