Publication: Some Small Countries Do It Better : Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland
Abstract
This book is an outcome of a series of
study visits to Singapore for African policy makers
initiated by Jee-Peng Tan in 2005 with support from Tommy
Koh in Singapore and Birger Fredriksen, Yaw Ansu, and
Dzingai Mutumbuka at the World Bank. Starting in the
1960s-earlier if Japan is included-a number of East Asian
economies began achieving growth rates well above the
average and were able to maintain that pace until nearly the
end of the 1990s. Countries, large and small, have struggled
to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian
pacesetters and to exploit the opportunities presented by
globalization to expand exports. But approximating the East
Asian benchmarks has proven difficult, and growth
accelerations have tended to be remarkably transient.
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Citation
“Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru. 2012. Some Small Countries Do It Better :
Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2243 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”