The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam …. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan … historical and geopolitical factors explain the greater political stability and absorptive capacity of South Korea and Taiwan. In …

This paper analyzes effects of the Republic of Korea's two major rural reforms in 1950 and 1962/63 on agricultural … upward shifts in trend around the years of the reforms. While Korea can be considered a case of successful land reform, the … years between the two major reforms can be considered Korea's lost decade. …

Applying difference-in-differences method to a county-level panel dataset comprising colonial and South Korea, this …

the Weberian type of meritocratic bureaucracy. Existing studies of South Korea's economic development generally credit … (1948–60) and the developmental Park regime (1961–79) has been exaggerated. Meritocracy in South Korea's bureaucratic … democratic episode (1960–61). What then explains the evolution of a developmental state in Korea? Land reform contributed to not …