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During the two to three decades since the later half of the 1960s to the mid-1990s, Asia — especially East Asia — has achieved economic development of a rapidity unmatched anywhere else in the world. The World Bank focused on this in its 1993 policy research report (referred to below as “Bank report”), The East Asian Miracle,1 in which it made the following statement.
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Japan Enviromental Council. (2000). Accelerated Industrialization and Explosive Urbanization. In: The State of the Environment in Asia. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68380-3_1
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