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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814372403321

Autore

Huang Xiaoming

Titolo

The rise and fall of the East Asian growth system, 1951-2000 : institutional competitiveness and rapid economic growth / / Xiaoming Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005

ISBN

1-134-26351-1

1-134-26352-X

1-280-10268-3

0-203-69896-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Disciplina

330.95/042

338.5

Soggetti

Economic history

East Asia Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Making sense of the 50-year growth: theories and evidence; Initial conditions: growth imperatives and alternative scenarios; Striving for sustainable international competitiveness; Cultural and social setting; Crafting the national growth system; The dynamism and consequences of East Asian Growth; Conclusion: institutional competitiveness and East Asian Growth; Notes on data and appendixes; Appendix A: individual EAE datasets; Appendix B: EAE and OECDE comparative data

Appendix C: East Asian Growth timelines (1951-2000)Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Huang examines a recurring pattern of rapid economic growth in East Asia from 1951 to the present and explores how far a single East Asian Growth model can be said to exist. Assessing the various theories put forward to explain the phenomenon and supported by the most comprehensive data, the book finds that methods of institutional enhancement were at the core of the growth. This institutional



enhancement affected state structure and functions, economic policy, corporate arrangements, social structure and relations, individual behaviour, and domestic and international interaction.  Each of