The newly industrialising economies of East Asia / / Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam

• Autore: Chowdhury Anis <1954->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.95
• Soggetto topico: Industrial promotion - East Asia
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia Economic conditions; East Asia Economic policy; East Asia Commercial policy
• Altri autori: IslamIyanatul <1953->
• Note generali: First published 1993 by Routledge. Reprinted 1995 and 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; THE NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES OF EAST ASIA; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE; 1 THE RISE OF THE EAST ASIAN NEWLY INDUSTRIALISING ECONOMIES: An overview; WHAT IS AN NIE?; THE EMERGENCE OF EAST ASIAN NIEs: THE SALIENT FEATURES; LOOKING AHEAD: CONCLUDING REMARKS; 2 HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS AND THE IMPACT OF GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES; THE EAST ASIAN NIEs: SYNOPTIC POLITICAL HISTORIES; CONFUCIANISM AND EAST ASIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH; GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES: THE IMPACT OF US AID AND THE VIETNAM WAR ; CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS3 EXPLAINING EAST ASIAN SUCCESS: Between the state and the market; ORIGINS OF THE DEBATE; NEOCLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EAST ASIA; NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EAST ASIA; WHICH WAY NOW?; 4 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT; EAST ASIAN AGRICULTURE IN TRANSITION: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; LAND REFORM AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RURAL INDUSTRIALISATION; THE EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION IN THE EAST ASIAN NIEs; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 5 TRADE LIBERALISATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXPORT ORIENTATION OF EAST ASIAN NIEs; EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES ; TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: ISSUES AND DEBATESCONCLUDING REMARKS; 6 INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE; INDUSTRIALISATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES; RESTRUCTURING OF MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN EAST ASIAN NIEs; CAUSES OF INDUSTRIALISATION AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE: ISSUES AND DEBATES; CAN A GOVERNMENT PICK A 'WINNING' INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE?; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7 FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABlLlTlES; NATURE AND TREND OF DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT; BENEFITS AND COSTS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT; FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES ; MNCs AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY: THE EVIDENCEINDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 8 FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; DETERMINANTS OF DOMESTIC SAVINGS: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL REFORMS; FINANCIAL DEEPENING AND THE ROLE OF REAL INTEREST RATES; EFFICIENCY OF INVESTMENT AND THE ROLE OF REAL INTEREST RATES; THE STRUCTURALIST CRITIQUE AND THE 'NEW' VIEW OF THE ROLE OF FINANCE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUDING REMARKS; 9 THE LABOUR MARKET, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND THE POLITICS OF LABOUR SUBORDINATION ; LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE: CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENTLABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE IN EAST ASIAN NIEs: AN OVERVIEW; LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A GROWTH ACCOUNTING APPROACH; HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND LABOUR MARKET PERFORMANCE; LEWISIAN, COMPETITIVE OR SEGMENTED? IN SEARCH OF AN APPROPRIATE LABOUR MARKET PARADIGM FOR EAST ASIAN NIEs; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR SUBORDINATION: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; 10 MACROECONOMIC MANAGEMENT; MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE EAST ASIAN NIEs: AN OVERVIEW; MACROECONOMIC GOALS AND TRADE-OFFS; INSTRUMENTS OF MACROMANAGEMENT ; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MACROMANAGEMENT: SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Sommario/riassunto: The phenomenal success of the East Asian Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs) of Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore is now well-known and documented. Their success has been discussed to such an extent that it has become entrenched as part of the folklore of development economics. The Newly Industrializing Economies of East Asia takes a fresh look at the relevant literature and sifts the rhetoric from the reality. In the course of surveying the vast range of writing two competing paradigms become clear: the neo-classical approach which interprets the East Asian economic mir
• Titolo autorizzato: Newly industrialising economies of East Asia
• ISBN: 1-134-86138-9; 1-280-15587-6; 0-203-97638-X; 1-134-86139-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826958103321
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