ABSTRACT
The presentation of the various case studies for Asia and the Middle East will proceed in alphabetical order. The exception is the oil exporters of the Middle East, which are handled separately because of the uniqueness of their history, and the common lack of pre-World War II macroeconomic data on GDP, FDI, or any indication of total capital stock. Australia is included as a country of recent settlement, and the breadth of experiences in Asia provides cases of colonies from five metropolitan powers, along with such independent countries as China and Thailand.
