East Asia: Adrift on a Sea of Possibilities

With rave review of his 2007 work “Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia” the Financial Times proclaimed him the “chief myth-buster for Asian business”. His latest offering is “How Asia Works", subtitled “Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region” in which he tries to explain the lessons which were learnt, or otherwise, in the formulation of development and specifically industrial models for growth. Listen to Studwell’s unvarnished view of the 9 most developed economies of East Asia.