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'Developmental state' is a term used by International political economy scholars to refer to the phenomenon of state-led macroeconomic planning in East Asia in the late twentieth century.

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Characteristics of the Developmental state

See also

References

Characteristics of the Developmental state

★ Emphasis on market share over profit

★ Economic nationalism

★ Protection of fledging domestic industries

★ Focus on foreign technology transfer

★ Large government bureaucracy

★ Alliance between the state, labour and industry called corporatism

★ Skepticism of neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus

★ Prioritization of economic growth over political reform

★ Legitimacy and Performance

See also

★ Dirigisme

★ International political economy

★ Japanese post-war economic miracle

★ Economic development

References

★ Meredith Woo-Cumings. (1999). ''The Developmental State''. Cornell University Press.

★ Peter Evans. (1995). ''Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation''. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ch. 1.

★ Polidano C. (2001). Don’t Discard State Autonomy: Revisiting the East Asian Experience of Development. ''Political Studies''. Vol. 49. No.3. 1: 513-527.

★ Ziya Onis. (1991). The Logic of the Developmental State. ''Comparative Politics''. 24. no. 1. pp. 109-26.

★ Mark Thompson. (1996). Late industrialisers, late democratisers: developmental states in the Asia-Pacific. ''Third World Quarterly''. 17(4): 625-647.

★ John Minns. (2001). Of miracles and models: the rise and decline of the developmental state in South Korea. ''Third World Quarterly''. 22(6): 1025-1043.

★ Joseph Wong. (2004). The adaptive developmental state in East Asia. ''Journal of East Asian Studies''. 4: 345-362.

★ Yun Tae Kim. (1999). Neoliberalism and the decline of the developmental state. ''Journal of Contemporary Asia''. 29(4): 441-461.

★ Linda Weiss. (2000). Developmental States in Transition: adapting, dismantling, innovating, not 'normalising'. ''Pacific Review''. 13(1): 21-55.

★ Robert Wade. (2003). What strategies are viable for developing countries today? The World Trade Organization and the shrinking of 'development space'. ''Review of International Political Economy''. 10 (4). pp. 621-644.