The Asian economy: contemporary issues and challenges

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1 ADB (2020: 1), Asia's Journey to Prosperity.

2 Tony Killick wrote, “The Chowdhury and Islam book … more systematic and comprehensive, more objective and better balanced, more satisfying….”, Development Policy Review, 12(1): 69-79 (1994).

3 About Islam and Chowdhury (2001), Andrew MacIntyre commented, “provide a comprehensive, analytically sharp and highly readable overview of the big debates about development on Asia, before and after the crisis”, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 38(1): 119-131 (2002).

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Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin

Dr Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin is Associate Professor in Development Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia. He had visiting research appointments at the Queen Elizabeth House (QEH) of the University of Oxford (UK) and at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands); was a Technical Advisor on decentralization and conflict at the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP) in Indonesia; was a Researcher at the UN Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR-UNDP) and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). His areas of research include political economy of development, employment and labour market as well as poverty and inequality. His first book titled Explaining Collective Violence in Contemporary Indonesia: From Conflict to Cooperation is published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. His second book Employment and Reindustrialisation in Post Soeharto Indonesia is also published by Palgrave, 2018. His articles have appeared in leading academic journals, such as Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of International Development, Economic and Labour Relations Review and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. He has consulted for Asian Development Bank (ADB) and various UN agencies such as FAO, ILO, UN-ESCAP, UNICEF and UN-OHRLLS.