The Newly Industrializing Economies of East Asia

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Cover; THE NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES OF EAST ASIA; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE; 1 THE RISE OF THE EAST ASIAN NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES: An overview; WHAT IS AN NIE?; THE EMERGENCE OF EAST ASIAN NIEs: THE SALIENT FEATURES; LOOKING AHEAD: CONCLUDING REMARKS; 2 HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS AND THE IMPACT OF GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES; THE EAST ASIAN NIEs: SYNOPTIC POLITICAL HISTORIES; CONFUCIANISM AND EAST ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH; GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES: THE IMPACT OF US AID AND THE VIETNAM WAR

CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS3 EXPLAINING EAST ASIAN SUCCESS: Between the state and the market; ORIGINS OF THE DEBATE; NEOCLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EAST ASIA; NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EAST ASIA; WHICH WAY NOW?; 4 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT; EAST ASIAN AGRICULTURE IN TRANSITION: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; LAND REFORM AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RURAL INDUSTRIALISATION; THE EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION IN THE EAST ASIAN NIEs; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 5 TRADE LIBERALISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXPORT ORIENTATION OF EAST ASIAN NIEs; EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES

TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: ISSUES AND DEBATESCONCLUDING REMARKS; 6 INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE; INDUSTRIALISATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES; RESTRUCTURING OF MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN EAST ASIAN NIEs; CAUSES OF INDUSTRIALISATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE: ISSUES AND DEBATES; CAN A GOVERNMENT PICK A 'WINNING' INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE?; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7 FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABlLlTlES; NATURE AND TREND OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT; BENEFITS AND COSTS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT; FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

MNCs AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY: THE EVIDENCEINDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 8 FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; DETERMINANTS OF DOMESTIC SAVINGS: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL REFORMS; FINANCIAL DEEPENING AND THE ROLE OF REAL INTEREST RATES; EFFICIENCY OF INVESTMENT AND THE ROLE OF REAL INTEREST RATES; THE STRUCTURALIST CRITIQUE AND THE 'NEW' VIEW OF THE ROLE OF FINANCE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 9 THE LABOUR MARKET, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLITICS OF LABOUR SUBORDINATION

LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE: CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENTLABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE IN EAST ASIAN NIEs: AN OVERVIEW; LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A GROWTH ACCOUNTING APPROACH; HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE; LEWISIAN, COMPETITIVE OR SEGMENTED? IN SEARCH OF AN APPROPRIATE LABOUR MARKET PARADIGM FOR EAST ASIAN NIEs; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR SUBORDINATION: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; 10 MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT; MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE EAST ASIAN NIEs: AN OVERVIEW; MACROECONOMIC GOALS AND TRADE-OFFS; INSTRUMENTS OF MACROMANAGEMENT

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MACROMANAGEMENT: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS

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