Learning from the Japanese - Japan's Pre-war Development and the Third World

With the collapse of the Soviet economy in the early 1990s, Japan has become the major non-Western model for late developing countries. This book looks at Japan's early economic modernisation to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons.

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Japanese Development Model; Chapter 2 Economic Autonomy and Adapting Foreign Technology; Chapter 3 Guided Capitalism; Chapter 4 The State and Indigenous Capitalism; Chapter 5 Transfer of Agricultural Surplus; Chapter 6 Low Industrial Wages; Chapter 7 Industrial Dualism; Chapter 8 Export Expansion and Import Substitution; Chapter 9 Applying the Japanese Development Model;

About the author

Nafziger, E. Wayne

Product details

• Authors: E Wayne Nafziger, E. Wayne Nafziger
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1995
• EAN: 9781563244865
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-486-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries