Looking beyond the Developmental State

Abstract

East Asia has led the world in economic growth and export expansion in the recent past. Concurrently, it has generally featured relatively stable social order and egalitarian distribution of the economic product. This col-lective performance by countries in that region has naturally engendered a huge literature attempting to account for their past record and to diagnose their future prospects. Understandably, their comparative successes have also encouraged analyses seeking to determine the relevance and transfer-ability of their experiences for countries elsewhere.