Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia - by Adam Posen (Paperback)

About the Book

Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia explores the relevance to several Asian economies of the diagnosis known as "secular stagnation." Leading experts discuss the fiscal and monetary policy challenges of reviving growth without generating domestic financial imbalances in essays on innovation, demographics, spillovers, and various policy proposals.

Book Synopsis

Literature in Yiddish has an almost millennium-long history. A major, if not the definitive caesura in its evolution was the outbreak of World War II, during which, of the approximately 11 million Jews who used Yiddish in their day-to-day affairs, over half perished. Yiddish literature emerged from the war severely crippled, weakened by the deaths of its writers and readers. But for many years after the war those who survived made immense efforts, in various places across the globe, to revive and foster culture in their mother tongue. After the Holocaust the major centres of literary life shifted to Western Europe, the United States, and Israel. It is widely believed that, outside the Soviet Union, there was little activity in Eastern Europe after the war. But in Poland there was a small though burgeoning and very dynamic centre of Jewish life. The community that was building it consisted of the handful of people who had miraculously survived the Holocaust in Poland, and the far larger group of those who had seen the war out in the USSR. It is the literary output of this community of survivors, created and/or published in post-war Poland to 1968, that is the subject of analysis in this work.

Review Quotes

Magdalena Ruta explores the virtually unknown area of Yiddish literature created in Poland after World War II. She unravels before general readers and future researchers numerous texts and analyzes them in a lucid and captivating manner. The book should appeal to readers from various disciplines as well as to a non-scholarly audience as it touches upon difficult and complex problems that only recently have become the subject of thorough research and that are still perceived as controversial, such as Polish-Jewish relations after the war, or the fascination of a substantial number of Polish Jewish intellectuals with communism. It is worth stressing that the author deals with this sensitive topic competently and objectively.--Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

About the Author

Jérémie Cohen-Setton, research fellow, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in September 2016 after completing his Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas Helbling is a division chief in the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, covering Australia and New Zealand. Previously, he was chief of the World Economic Studies Division in the IMF's research department, where he codirected the work on the World Economic Outlook.

Adam S. Posen has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013 after first joining in July 1997.

Changyong Rhee is the director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund.