The politics of open economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand
In: Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies
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In: Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 453-454
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 453-454
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 202-204
ISSN: 1474-0680
In: Journal of developing societies, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 52-66
ISSN: 0169-796X
Countries of the developing world have watched with envy as the Newly Industrialized Countries of East Asia have transformed themselves into modern industrial states over the past twenty years. They have been all too aware, however, of the major differences of culture, size, resource endowments, etc, that separate the typical third world state from these small-state NICs. How might such differences affect the outcome of NIC-inspired industrialization policies when applied to the third world? This paper explores the impact of two factors, communal divisiveness and resource wealth, on attempts to formulate and implement an industrial development strategy for Malaysia. Abundant natural resources, including petroleum and natural gas, tend, counter-intuitively, to hinder rather than promote the process of economic transformation. In the presence of major communal divisions along ethnic lines and the absence of any immediate imperative to industrialize, developmental expenditures are used to satisfy distributional demands rather than industrialization goals. A "high level trap", of relative prosperity combined with continued vulnerability to external shocks and less than optimal long-run growth is the result. (Internat. Pol. Science Assoc.)
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In: The political economy of international change
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 2, S. 453
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 433
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 165
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: Commonwealth & comparative politics, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 114-115
In: Comparative politics, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 355
ISSN: 2151-6227