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Spon's Asia Pacific Construction Costs Handbook
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Highlights the Economies and Construction Industries of the Asia-Pacific Region Spon's Asia-Pacific Construction Costs Handbook: Fifth Edition provides overarching construction cost data for 16 countries: Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailan
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4
Spon’s
Asia
Pacific
construction
costs
handbook
Table
1.2,
in
summarising
the
key
characteristics
of
the
countries
included
in
this
volume,
highlights
their
diversity.
Populations
range
from
around
400,000
in
Brunei
to
more
than
1.3
billion
in
China.
The
small-
est
country
in
terms
of
area
is
Singapore,
followed
by
Hong
Kong
(Special
Administrative
Region
of
the
People’s
Republic
of
China)
and
the
largest,
China,
followed
by
India.
Density
of
population
is
high
in
the
smallest
countries
but
only
141
persons
per
square
kilometre
in
China
and
386
in
India.
Definitions
of
the
statistical
terms
in
Table
1.2
and
others
used
in
this
book
are
discussed
in
Part
II,
Chapter
2.
Because
of
the
need
to
use
monetary
values
in
a
common
currency,
GDP
at
nominal
exchange
rates
is
not
always
the
best
indicator
of
stan-
dard
of
living.
Table
1.3
compares
the
money
value
of
GDP
per
capita
with
estimates
of
GDP
per
capita
on
a
purchasing
power
parity
(PPP)
basis,
that
is
an
approximation
to
what
the
GDP
per
capita
will
actually
Figure
1.1
Asia
map.
(From
www.cia.gov.)
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- How to use this book
- Abbreviations
- Conversion factors
- Langdon & Seah
- Chapter 1: The construction industry in the Asia Pacific region
- Chapter 2: Introductory notes to country sections
- Chapter 3: Brunei Darussalam
- Chapter 4: Cambodia
- Chapter 5: China
- Chapter 6: Hong Kong
- Chapter 7: India
- Chapter 8: Indonesia
- Chapter 9: Japan
- Chapter 10: Malaysia
- Chapter 11: Myanmar
- Chapter 12: Philippines
- Chapter 13: Singapore
- Chapter 14: South Korea
- Chapter 15: Sri Lanka
- Chapter 16: Taiwan
- Chapter 17: Thailand
- Chapter 18: Vietnam
- Chapter 19: Amplified descriptions of construction items
- Chapter 20: Introductory notes
- Chapter 21: Key national indicators
- Chapter 22: Construction output indicators
- Chapter 23: Construction cost data
- Back Cover