Introduction / Richard Pomfret -- Part I: Flying geese and NIEs -- A theory of unbalanced growth in the world economy / Kaname Akamatsu -- The "flying geese" model of Asian economic development : origin, theoretical extensions, and regional policy implications / Kiyoshi Kojima -- Economic...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...