ABSTRACT
The economies of East and South East Asia are becoming integrated into a broad Pacific Asia region. This new regional grouping has emerged as the most dynamic component of the global economy. While the region is becoming increasingly dominated by Japan, it has over the last twenty years contained most of the world’s fastest growing economies, viz. the East Asian Newly Industrialized Countries, and more recently, Thailand (Table 1.1). The individual economies are not only extremely varied and complex, but are also linked together by intricate and rapidly changing structures.
