The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis

by Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198292135
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/29/1997
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Stanford University

World Bank

University of Tokyo

Table of Contents

Introduction, Masahiko Aoki, HyungKi Kim, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara1. Beyond The East Asian Miracle: Introducing the Market Enhancing View, Masahiko Aoki, Kevin Murdock, and Masahiro Okuno-FujiwaraPART I. Market Failures and Government Activism2. The Role of Government in Economic Development: Some Observations from the Experience of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Lawrence J. Lau3. The Government-Firm Relationship in Postwar Japanese Economic Recovery: Coordinating the Coordination Failure in Industrial Rationalization, Tetsuji Okazaki4. The Role of Government in Acquiring Technological Capability: The Case of the Petrochemical Industry in East Asia, Hyung-Ki Kim and Jun Ma5. Economic Development as Coordination Problems, Kiminori MatsuyamaPART II. The Market-enhancing View6. Financial Restraint: Toward a New Paradigm, Thomas Hellmann, Kevin Murdock, and Joseph Stiglitz7. Government Intervention, Rent Distribution, and Economic Development in Korea, Yoon Je Cho8. Unintended Fit: Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutions in Japan, Masahiko Aoki9. Institutions, State Activism, and Economic Development: A Comparison of State-Owned vs. Township-Village Enterprises in China, Yingyi Qian and Barry R. WeingastPART III. The Political Economy of Development and Government-Private Interactions10. Sectoral Resource Transfer, Conflict, and Macrostability in Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis, Juro Teranishi11. The Political Economy of Growth in East Asia: A Perspective on the State, Market, and Ideology, Meredith Woo-Cumings12. Rents and Development in Multiethnic Malaysia Jomo K.S. and Terence Gomez13. Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Government Business Relationship, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara