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Institutional Change in Meiji Japan: Image and Reality
Hunter, Janet - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004
The substantial institutional and organisational changes in Japan that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868 have … Meiji reform process to indicate how far it might offer any lessons for institutional and organisational reform in Japan at … debates in Japan financial institutions, business enterprise and the labour market suggests that in all three cases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419300
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China's growth miracle in the context of Asian transformation
Lin, Justin Yifu - 2018
Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894344
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China’s Economic Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and the Role of the World Bank
Freije-Rodriguez, Samuel - 2020
This paper reviews the extraordinary reduction of poverty in China over the past 40 years. It records the key economic and poverty-specific reforms that fueled the rapid growth that enabled more than 800 million people to exit extreme poverty and documents a chronology increasingly targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846218
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Rising Manufacture Exports and Terms of Trade : The Case Study of Korea
Sarkar, Prabirjit - 2007
This study observed rapidly rising shares of manufactured and electronic goods in Korea's total exports and a trend … decline in Korea's terms of trade over the period of this study (1967-2001), in accordance with the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis …. Contrary to the expectation of Prebisch, the increasing proportion of manufactured and electronic goods in Korea's exports …
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Economic Freedom : Lessons of Hong Kong
Li, Kui-Wai - 2015
For over a decade, the economy of Hong Kong has been ranked the freest economy by both the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. and the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada. Rankings of economic freedom tend to make comparisons on the performance of economic freedom among the various world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011108
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The Developmental State is Dead : Long Live the Developmental State!
Haggard, Stephan M. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077593
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The five-phases of economic development and institutional evolution in China and Japan
Aoki, Masahiko - 2011
five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Choson Korea) and their path … institutional evolution between China and Japan, which also clarifies the simplicity of prevailing arguments that identify East …
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
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Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes : Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework
Quintyn, Marc - 2012
This paper tests the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) on the transition from closed to open access societies. They posit that societies need to go through three doorsteps: the establishment of rule of law among elites; the adoption of perpetually existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108474
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Institutions
Mantzavinos, C. - 2016
This overview paper introduces some basic concepts of New Institutional Economics like the conceptualization of institutions as the rules of the game and then focuses on the two basic mechanisms of emergence and evolution of social institutions, i.e. as a product of collective action or as a...
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