TY - BOOK TI - The financial development of India, Japan, and the United States: a trilateral institutional, statistical, and analytic comparison SN - 0300029349 AV - HG187.I4 G643 1983 PY - 1983///. CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Finance KW - India KW - Japan KW - United States KW - Finances KW - âEtats-Unis KW - Inde KW - Japon KW - Financièele positie KW - gtt N1 - Errata slip inserted.; Includes bibliographical references and index. N2 - Goldsmith focuses on trends in investment and saving; the devellopment of money and banking and other financiasl institutions; the methods of financing households, business, and government; and changes in the structure of national balance sheets. He a ttempts to identify the main factors-economic and noneconomic-that have been responsible for the remarkable differences among the three countries in the relationships between theeir financial superstructures and their infrastructures of national income and wealth; India and Japan, which found themselves at roughly the same level of economic and financial development in the 1860s, have advanced since then at strikingly different rates: India very slowly, Japan with unprecedented speed. In this book, Raymond Gold smith highlights the essential differences between the financial structures of India and Japan and compares them to that of the United States, regarded as the prototype in this field. The data used aretaken, in the case of India and Japan, form two volumes published simultaneously (see back cover), which offer much more detail, as well as documented statistical evidence ER -