which finance capital could export its excessive surplus. The next version posited a neo-imperial world of monopoly … intermediation. The third script postulated a World System where surplus is imported from the dependent periphery into the financial … its own productive fuel and is now trying to financialize the rest of the world in order to use the system's external …

attributed to world growth slowdown (decade effect) and East Asia-specific effects. In particular, it was found that the …

international linkages, low cost and well-educated labor pool; and (iii) development strategy utilizing the export revenue from …