Introduction / Richard Pomfret -- Part I: Flying geese and NIEs -- A theory of unbalanced growth in the world economy / Kaname Akamatsu -- The "flying geese" model of Asian economic development : origin, theoretical extensions, and regional policy implications / Kiyoshi Kojima -- Economic development in East Asia : doing what comes naturally? / James Riedel -- Part II: The second generation -- Can the East Asian model of development be generalized? / William R. Cline -- Can the East Asian model of development be generalized? A comment / Gustav Ranis -- Overview : the making of a miracle / World Bank -- Part III: The benefits of openness -- Trade liberalization, intermediate inputs, and productivity : evidence from Indonesia / Mary Amiti and Jozef Konings -- Productivity and turnover in the export market : micro-level evidence from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) / Bee Yan Aw, Sukkyun Chung and Mark J. Roberts -- Part IV: Subcontracting and other institutional novelties -- Manufactured exports from less-developed countries and multinational firms / G.K. Helleiner -- International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain / Gary Gereffi -- Part V: Subregional zones -- Subregional economic zones : a new motive force in Asia-Pacific development / Chia Siow Yue and Lee Tsao Yuan -- Sub-regional economic zones / Richard Pomfret -- Sub-regional cooperation and developmental regionalism : the case of BIMP- AGA / Christopher M. Dent and Peter Richter -- Part VI: Regional integration -- The East Asian trading bloc : an analytical history / Peter A. Petri -- Open regionalism : the nature of Asia Pacific integration / Peter Drysdale, Andrew Elek and Hadi Soesastro -- Is SAARC a viable economic block? Evidence from gravity model / M. Kabir Hassan -- Bilateral trade agreements / Jayant Menon -- Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific region : how wide, how deep? / Richard Pomfret -- East Asian regionalism : much ado about nothing? / John Ravenhill -- Part VII: ASEAN -- A new look at Intra-ASEAN economic co-operation / Mari Pangestu, Hadi Soesastro and Mubariq Ahmad -- Clothes without an emperor : analysis of the preferential tariffs in ASEAN / Miriam Manchin and Annette O. Pelkmans-Balaoing -- ASEAN economic community : a general equilibrium analysis / Peter A. Petri, Michael G. Plummer and Fan Zhai -- Part VIII: RVCs and GVCs -- China's emergence and the reorganisation of trade flows in Asia / Guillaume Gaulier, Françoise Lemoine and Deniz Onal-Kesenci -- Singapore and ASEAN in the new regional division of labor / Prema-chandra Athukorala -- Production networks and trade patterns in East Asia : regionalization or globalization? / Prema-chandra Athukorala.