INITIAL CONDITIONS AND MIRACULOUS GROWTH: WHY IS SOUTH EAST ASIA DIFFERENT FROM TAIWAN AND SOUTH KOREA?

Anne Booth ()
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Anne Booth: Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK

No 72, Working Papers from Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, UK

Abstract: The paper argues that the economies of East and South East Asia are a very diverse group, only some of which have grown rapidly over the past three decades. The fast growing economies of South East Asia, especially Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are in a number of important respects different from the fast growing economies of North East Asia, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. The different colonial legacies have had important consequences for educational progress and the distribution of income and wealth. Government intervention has tended to be less growth-promoting and more oriented to goals such as inter-ethnic redistribution of wealth. The implications of these differences for future economic growth in South East Asia are discussed.

Pages: 53 pages
Date: 1998-05
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