Product Description
This collection of papers stems from a recent World Bank project focused upon the contentious issue of whether government has played any positive role in the success of the so-called “high-performing” Asian economies. It goes beyond the influential World Bank volume The East Asian Miracle to chart a middle ground that recognizes diversity among the different East Asian economies, as well as the evolutionary nature of government intervention…. More >>
The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis
Tags: Analysis, Asian, asian economic development, Comparative, comparative institutional analysis, contentious issue, Development, diversity, East, east asian economies, east asian miracle, Economic, Government, government intervention, Institutional, Role, role of government, world bank, world bank project
#1 by Shoulong Mao on April 16, 2010 - 4:46 am
Usually, scholars like to treat the strong role of governmentas the major reason of the high-speed development of East AsianCountries and regions. The failure of them is that they never pay attention to the institutional foundations of the speedy development in East Asia. This book provides an alternative way to discuss the true reason of speed development in East Asia and offers some impressive arguments. To me, the most interesting points of this book are that East Asia has special social capital and institutional foundations for proper development and the strong role of government might not be the major reason. I suggest that the students of public sector economics, public administration and political science at least in China and other east Asia countries might have look at it and I believe this book is really one with much creative ideas. It is also helpful for government officials who prefer proper institutional foundation construction for sustainable development in developing world.
Rating: 5 / 5