Escaping the periphery: The East Asian 'mystery' solved

Robert Wade

No wp-2018-101, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Few non-western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries. The core-periphery structure of the world economy created in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution has proved robust, even after seven decades of self-conscious 'development' following the Second World War. Just about all the countries which were in the periphery in 1960 remain in the periphery today.

Keywords: State capacity; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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