Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

No 2243 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This book is an outcome of a series of study visits to Singapore for African policy makers initiated by Jee-Peng Tan in 2005 with support from Tommy Koh in Singapore and Birger Fredriksen, Yaw Ansu, and Dzingai Mutumbuka at the World Bank. Starting in the 1960s-earlier if Japan is included-a number of East Asian economies began achieving growth rates well above the average and were able to maintain that pace until nearly the end of the 1990s. Countries, large and small, have struggled to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters and to exploit the opportunities presented by globalization to expand exports. But approximating the East Asian benchmarks has proven difficult, and growth accelerations have tended to be remarkably transient.

Keywords: Information; and; Communication; Technologies-ICT; Policy; and; Strategies; Private; Sector; Development-E-Business; Technology; Industry; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Economic; Theory; &; Research; Environment-Environmental; Economics; &; Policies; Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8846-4
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