"Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro, Vivekananda Nemana More than 3 decades ago, Albert Hirschman wondered why not enough attention had been paid to Latin America's post-war economic boom, certainly not while it happened. Only in retrospect, from the "lost decade" of the 1980s, did the...

"Before the arrival of the 21st century, Taiwan was widely regarded as a successful model of a country which had not only transformed herself from an under-developed economy into a high-tech industrialised island, but also undergone a revolution from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one....

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