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Introduction ix Acknowledgements This volume owes much to the efforts and patience of many people including the authors themselves and the organizations associated with a two-year research project, “Asian Development Experience”, organized by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Unfortunately, SARS, which became widespread in East Asia in particular, prevented the holding of an interim workshop scheduled for April 2003. Thanks are due to Matsuo Watanabe and Saori Honma of JIIA who facilitated the progress of the project since its inauguration in November 2001, as well as to the the Japan-ASEAN Solidarity Fund, contributed by the Japanese Government and managed by the ASEAN Foundation, whose financial support made the project possible. A special thanks goes to Hisashi Owada, former president of JIIA, now judge in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, who inaugurated the launch meeting of the project in Tokyo. ...

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