Asia Future Shock: Business Crisis and Opportunity in the Coming Years

· Springer
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China is the world's biggest market for cigarettes. By 2020, 300 million Chinese will be elderly. By 2010, China will have 7 of the world's biggest shopping malls. This book is an invaluable asset for corporate planners and strategists, futurologists, and anyone developing business in Asia as Backman provides an essential map for Asia's future.

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A Google user
November 10, 2011
I always have a doubt when reading the book: how much I can trust what the book predict.The predictions are based on the newspaper reports, individual examples and author's thoughts, instead of the statistical data. It can give you an idea, but hard to judge the ideas.
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Michael Backman specialises in Asia's economies and Asian corporate practice. He is the author of the international bestseller Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia named by The Economist as one of the finest non-fiction books published for the year. He is the author or co-author of four other books on Asian business and culture and has a long-running and widely-read Asian business column in the Melbourne Age newspaper. He has lived and worked in Asia, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on Asia, both for companies and at public events. He is based in London when not travelling in Asia.

See www.michaelbackman.com for more information.

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