Asian Industrialization and Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Policy Alternatives to Structural Adjustment in Africa: An Introduction

   • Howard Stein

   Pages 1-29

3. The World Bank, Neo-Classical Economics and the Application of Asian Industrial Policy to Africa

   • Howard Stein

   Pages 31-52

4. Japan’s Industrial Development, 1868–1939: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

   • E. Wayne Nafziger

   Pages 53-85

5. The Korean Miracle (1962–80) Revisited: Myths and Realities in Strategies and Development

   • Kwan S. Kim

   Pages 87-143

6. The State as Agent: Industrial Development in Taiwan, 1952–1972

   • Deborah Brautigam

   Pages 145-181

7. Colonialism and Entrepreneurship in Africa and Hong Kong: A Comparative Perspective

   • S. Gordon Redding, Simon Tam

   Pages 183-203

8. Foreign Investment, the State and Industrial Policy in Singapore

   • Linda Lim

   Pages 205-238

9. East Asia and Industrial Policy in Malaysia: Lessons for Africa?

   • Chris Edwards

   Pages 239-256

10. Back Matter

    Pages 257-284

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Drawing on case-studies from the industrialization of East and Southeast Asian nations, this text critically examines the structural adjustment policies used in Africa since the 1980s. The Asian country studies include Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Meiji Japan.

• agents
• Asia
• development
• East Asia
• economics
• entrepreneur
• entrepreneurship
• investment
• Japan
• science and technology

• Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA

  Howard Stein

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