East Asia and Eastern Europe in a Globalized Perspective

This book compares development experiences from South Korea and Estonia, which are both very successful examples of development within their region. The development experience of states in the 20th century offers a bewildering variety and often downright contradicting models, which nevertheless led to catching-up and rapid growth rates.

Autorentext

Bernhard Seliger is a representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Seoul (South Korea) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Witten-Herdecke (Germany). Jüri Sepp is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Tartu (Estonia). Ralph Wrobel is Professor of Economics and Economic Policy at the West Saxon University of Zwickau (Germany).

Inhalt
Contents: Ralph Wrobel: Economic Models for New Industrializing Countries in Comparative Perspective Sung-Jo Park: Developmental State in Korea (60s-70s) Revisited: Institution-Building for the Making of «Coordinated Market» Janno Reiljan/Ingra Paltser: The Implementation of Research and Development Policy in European and Asian Countries Herman W. Hoen: Emerging Market Economies and the Financial Crisis: Is there Institutional Convergence between Europe and Asia? Karmo Kroos: Developmental Welfare Capitalism in East Asia with a Special Emphasis on South Korea Joachim Ahrens/Manuel Stark: Independent Organizations in Authoritarian Regimes: contradiction in terms or an effective instrument of developmental states? Erik Terk: Practicing Catching-up: a Comparison of Development Models of East Asian and Central-Eastern European Countries Jüri Sepp/Uku Varblane: The Decomposition of Productivity Gap between Estonia and Korea Jüri Sepp/Helje Kaldaru/Jürgen Joamets: The Characteristics and Position of the Economic Structures of Estonia and Korea among the OECD Countries Bernhard J. Seliger: Lessons of Korea for Emerging Economies: An unexpected journey from rags to riches, from crisis to recovery.