We identify East Asian growth as an 'emulative process'. Distilling salient facts from a set of particular cases, we construct an example to capture the essence of such technology transfer, where the government of a developing economy may provide adequate incentive for the firms of a developed...

The spectacular growth of many economies in East Asia over the past 30years has impressed the economics profession, which often refers to thesuccess of the so-called Four Tigers of the region (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan Province of China) as ""miraculous."" This papercritically...