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Some Lessons from Korea's Industrialization Strategy and Experience

Romana, Sta.; L, Leonardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We look at Korea's industrialization strategy and experience from the 1960s to the mid-1990s. Three elements of the Korean industrial development and structural change are discussed: 1) its outward orientation and export push, 2) its climb up the ladder of comparative advantage, and 3) its...

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East Asian Financial and Economic Development

Morck, Randall - 2017

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world's poorest countries in the 1960s, joined the ranks of First World economies in little over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow...

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How did East Asia grow so fast? Slow progress towards an analytical consensus

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Although in the post-World War II period as a whole, developing countries have made substantial economic and industrial progress, during the last decade or so, many of them, particularly in Latin America and Africa, have been in an acute economic crisis . As a consequence, these countries have...

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Transaction Costs and Crony Capitalism in East Asia

Kang, David C. - 2002

Why did corruption and cronyism impede growth in some Asian countries but not in others? Building upon theoretical advances in the fields of rent-seeking, transaction costs, and the new institutional economics, this study finds that if there is a balance of power among a small and stable number...

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Savings, investment and the corporation in the East Asian miracle

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Abstract The East Asian countries have achieved a spectacular average rate of economic growth over the last 30 to 40 years, with very substantial diversification and economic development. Korea, for example, managed to transform itself from being a largely agricultural society in 1960 to the...

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Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability : Empirical Evidence from East and South-East Asia

Alam, Md Samsul - 2013

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in the East and South-East Asian countries focused on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, using data from environmental performance index (EPI) in 2010. Both pollution and eco-efficiency...

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Can Information Technology Revive Economic Development in East Asia? The Role of Human and Technical Resource Policy

Adams, F. Gerard - 2003

a greater challenge. They will call for policies that provide the needed infrastructure, and, particularly, they will …

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Review of the role of government in East Asian economic development, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997, Aoki, Kim and Okuno - Fujiwara (editors)

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This is an important and ambitious book but its timing could not be more unfortunate. It is the result of a two year research project co-sponsored by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the World Bank and by the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. The contributors...

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The challenges of industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa and lessons from East Asia

Igbatayo, Samuel A.; Idahosa, Daniel C.O. - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 1 (2012) 3, pp. 193-213

-Saharan Africa has been marginalised by contemporary industrialisation. The unenviable trend has been blamed for the escalation of … objectives of this study are to examine the state of industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. It employs empirical data to … output for several countries. The study therefore presents a comprehensive framework aimed at scaling-up industrial policies …

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Agricultural Sector Development and Structural Transformation : Sub-Saharan Africa versus East Asia

Kim, Hee-Sik - 2017

This paper has revisited the roles of agricultural sector development for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in responding to the twofold challenges – broadening the base of economic growth and sustaining growth momentum. Based on a holistic and long-term perspective on the mechanism of an economic...

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