Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 393 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781781958520
Content:
East Asia has been an area of high economic growth for several decades. The East Asian High-Tech Drive argues that to maintain the growth momentum, the more advanced East Asian economies need to pay particular attention to policies designed to upgrade their industrial capabilities. The authors argue that effectively functioning institutions, predictable commercial policies, investments in human capital and infrastructure, openness and macroeconomic stability are essential for growth and technological development. Regarding the two lower income economies in the sample, Indonesia is found to have the smallest improvement in the skill intensity of its exports, while the Philippines has registered the slowest economic growth. For both countries, industrial upgrading issues are not as imperative as achieving or regaining rapid, labour-intensive growth as both recently experienced major political instabilities. Yun-Peng Chu and Hal Hill have gathered together a strong and cohesive collection of papers written by country experts on the issue of high-tech industrialization in East Asia. They present case studies of Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, the PRC and Indonesia. The book uses a new measure of the skill intensity of exports that, it is argued, deepens our understanding of industrialization trajectories in this important and dynamic region. There are also detailed examinations and assessments of government policies in each economy. The editors have prepared an overview chapter that summarizes and integrates the main results of cross-country comparisons in a coherent manner. Academics, scholars and researchers of economic development, industrial and technology studies and Asian studies will all find much to engage them within this book
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents: Preface -- 1. An overview of the issues / Hal Hill and Yun-Peng Chu -- 2. Three paths for high-technology catch-up: Singapore, Korea and Taiwan / Jang-Sup Shin and Yun-Peng Chu -- 3. High-tech industrialisation and local capability formation in south Korea / Jang-Sup Shin -- 4. The political economy of Taiwan's high-tech industrialisation: The 'developmental state' and its mutinous mutation / Yun-Peng Chu -- 5. Moving towards high-tech industrialisation: The case of Malaysia / Tham Siew-Yean and Haji Mat Zin Ragayah -- 6. High-tech industry development in the Philippines: At a dangerous crossroad? / Gwendolyn R. Tecson -- 7. Thailand as a high-tech industrial economy: An impossible dream? / Medhi Krongkaew, with Teeraya Krongkaew -- 8. Indonesian industrial policies: Before and after the crisis / Kelly Bird and Hal Hill / / Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845426187
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 9781845426187
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The East Asian high-tech drive Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2006 ISBN 1845426185
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845426187
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Ostasien
;
Technologie
;
Innovation
;
Spitzentechnologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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