The unusually rapid and prolonged growth of both output and exports in the Newly Industralizing Countries of East Asia has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing sectors, has been extraordinarily high. This view has, in...

This paper proposes a stylized (hence very partial) explanation of the experience of those economies which, like the East Asian newly industrializing economies, managed to create an economic take-off, characterized by a rapid expansion of manufactured exports, and to maintain for many years a...

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 unprecedented economic rise of Eastern Europe and China in the last two decades has triggered concerns in developed Western market economies about adverse effects for domestic labor markets trough increased import competition. Simultaneously, exports from developed countries to these new...