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Booth, Anne (2001) 'Why is South East Asia Different from Taiwan and South Korea?' In: Lawrence, Peter and Thirtle, Colin, (eds.), Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 11-33.

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Abstract

The last decade has seen an explosion of work on the fast growing economies of East and South-East Asia, by individual scholars and by the international development institutions. Influential books by Amsden (1989) and Wade (1990), as well as the work of Johnson (1982, 1995) have explored the nature of the East Asian developmental state, and especially the role of government in determining the allocation of resources to particular industries, in building infrastructure and in the development of the educational system. The widely discussed report published by the World Bank (1993) on the East Asian ‘Miracle’ endeavoured to draw lessons not just from the experience of Japan, Taiwan and Korea but also from four fast-growing economies in South-East Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The recent growth experience of China was also discussed. This report and the large literature which it generated have tended to convey the impression that the huge area of the world which the term ‘East Asia’ embraces have all experienced rapid economic growth over the last three decades, and that from their experience a coherent set of ‘lessons’ can be drawn for less successful economies in other parts of the world.

Item Type: Book Chapters
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Economics
ISBN: 9780333790298
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403905406_2
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2007 13:33
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/2301

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