Using a two-sector growth accounting model, the authors measure the total contribution (including both positive and negative effects) of population cum labour growth on per capita income and sectoral output growth. With respect to per capita income growth, the total contribution of population...

The author compares the autocratic political regimes which carried out the industrialization of Taiwan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in the post-war period and also compares their respective democratization processes. He shows that the controlling regime in Taiwan was more pre-emptive...