The Asia Investor provides a solid framework for analyzing investment opportunities across the region and picking potential winners. Asia is buoyed by several trends that drive these opportunities and it is the analysis of these trends that forms the core of this book. Some of the key trends analyzed are: * rapidly rising standard of living * large and growing middle class * unprecedented pace of urbanization * growing trade links between key Asian nations * evolution of a robust pan-Asian financial infrastructure * political stability and growing institutionalization of these economies * growing privatization * infrastructure spending * growing integration with global industrial and services networks