The usual explanation for the rapid growth of Japan in the postwar decades relies on the dualistic mechanism -- the cheap labor supplied by the low-wage sector to the more modernized sector which importing new technologies from the West is able to supply cheap industrial products in the...

In trying to understand the differentials in the growth rates of GNP per capita during the postwar decades in the three regions of Asia (East, South-east, and South Asia), this paper singles out manpower development as one of the major forces responsible for the growth differentials. Manpower...

This paper continues on with the theme of my previous papers emphasizing the importance of human resource development in East Asia's postwar growth. It is argued that the NICs were better prepared to start rapid growth early in the postwar era because of prewar experience. Japan, in order to...

On the basis of available food supply levels of Japan and the Asian NICs in the early 1980s, it is assumed that 2,600 calories represent available food levels needed for all Asian countries under full employment conditions. This levels is substantially higher than estimates of Asian and WHO...

Human resources have recently come to occupy the focal point in economic development in the work of international organizations. The paper divides resources into material (including technology) and human resources and asserts that past theories of economic growth paid title attention to human...

The impact of public agricultural land distribution in the Philippines can be examined through an ex post facto analysis of the distribution of the resource. As differentiated from the redistribution of lands (e.g. land reform), the distribution confers benefits to certain social groups though...