Overview
- Explores how a country could make a transition from the periphery of the world economy to the ‘emerging state’
- Synthesizes historical and contemporary case studies of transition, focusing on regional trade, labor-intensive industrialization, and the transfer of agricultural technology
- Draws a new perspective on the role of the emerging state by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics
Part of the book series: Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies (EESIPS)
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About this book
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
Editors: Keijiro Otsuka, Kaoru Sugihara
Series Title: Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3131-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3130-5Published: 12 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3131-2Published: 16 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-5023
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5031
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 292
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Development Economics, Asian Economics, History of China, History of South Asia, History of Southeast Asia