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Since the independence of Bangladesh nearly thirty years ago, the country is still going through serious instability … Bangladesh, the monumental work of the Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama, came out. At that time, Bangladesh, as East …, this paper examines the transformation experience of Bangladesh in light of the analytical framework of "Asian Drama …
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We analyze and compare the pattern of economic growth and development of China and South Korea in the postwar period. Geographical proximity and cultural affinity between the two countries, as well as the key role of the developmental state in the economies of both countries, suggests that an...
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This paper extends the North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) framework for understanding the problems of development. Our approach distinguishes two development problems that are normally conflated. Most approaches to development focus on the second problem, namely, the transition of societies from...
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This paper considers the contribution of the developmental state literature to comparative historical analysis, with a particular emphasis on methodological issues: the role of single and comparative case studies, counter-factual analysis, the nature of historical explanation and the...
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This paper summarizes the main characteristics of the two major Chinese growth strategies since 1978, namely the Deng strategy (named after Deng Xiaoping) between 1978 and 2011 and the Xi strategy (named after Xi Jinping) since 2012/13. After a brief description of both strategies, I analyze in...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, rapid market oriented reforms, liberalization and privatization (“shock therapy”) in developing and transformational countries caused economic and social problems that began to undermine the legitimacy of political democratization and market reforms itself. Scholars...
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This chapter addresses the issue of social protection and welfare in Africa. Africa is a highly diversified continent characterized by different socio-economic performances. It comprises the more developed countries of North Africa, as well as the less developed sub-region of Sub-Saharan Africa....
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The paper analyses the development strategy adopted In China after 1978. It is shown that it has not followed a pre-determined plan but, on the contrary has emerged as a result of political shocks in the core of the CCP and of other factors related to history and geography
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