Is the East Asian growth record replicable today? This book answers: yes. It places the common East Asian theme in the theoretic context of product cycles, globalization and convergence and the historical perspective of the "German Miracle" after World War II, also the more recent Irish growth;...

We identify East Asian growth as an 'emulative process'. Distilling salient facts from a set of particular cases, we construct an example to capture the essence of such technology transfer, where the government of a developing economy may provide adequate incentive for the firms of a developed...