Industrialization and Challenges in Asia

This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian ti

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Industrialization and Challenges in Asia

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

Industrialization and Challenges in Asia

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran University of Wollongong School of Economics New South Wales, Australia

ISBN 978-981-10-0823-8 ISBN 978-981-10-0824-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0824-5

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CONTENTS

Part I

Trade Strategies and the Asian Tigers

1

1 Inward Orientation as a Development Strategy

3

2 Outward Orientation as an Alternative Strategy

33

3

67

Japan and the Asian Tigers

Part II 4

The Followers of the Asian Tigers

Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

97

99

5

China: An Emerging Giant

135

6

India’s Growth Path

159

Part III Major Challenges

185

7

187

Asian Crisis to Global Crisis

v

vi

CONTENTS

8

Poverty and Urbanization in Asia

215

Abbreviations

249

References

253

Index

255

LIST

Fig. 1.1 Fig. 1.2 Fig. 1.3 Fig. 2.1 Fig. 2.2 Fig. 2.3 Fig. 2.4 Fig. 2.5 Fig. 2.6 Fig. 3.1

Fig. 4.1 Fig. 4.2 Fig. 4.3 Fig. 4.4 Fig. 4.5 Fig. 5.1

Fig. 5.2

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FIGURES

Instruments of protectionism Pecuniary externalities Backward and forward linkages Productive efficiency of the form Perfect competition and monopoly Allocative cost of protection Total cost with rent-seeking Benefits from protection Enclave model Trade-to-GDP ratio: 1960–2014 (Source: World Bank (2015a); WTO (2015); National Statistics of Taiwan (2015a)) Level of integration Trade creation and trade diversion Average tariff rates for ASEAN: 1993–2013 (Source: ASEAN Secretariat (2014)) Total factor productivity: ASEAN-5, 1990–2013 (Source: APO 2015) (Note: 2