Rural Development

Ban, Sung Hwan; Moon, Pal Yong; Perkins, Dwight H.

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“…Whether this is actually the case, however, is a subject for future research. The reconstruction efforts after the war to avoid starvation (Francks et al, 1999: 107), to stabilize the economy and foster industrialization (see Stubbs, 2018), and to increase farming incomes through land reforms and directed investments, particularly after the second and third 5-year plans expanding from 1967 to 1976 (Ban et al, 1980), eventually led to a successful structural change. But this was achieved at least one decade after Taiwan's, and partly hindered by a less extensive presence of farmers' associations and cooperatives for expanding technological use (Oshima, 1986: 795).…”

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Divergence before the division: the colonial origins of separate development paths in Korea

Andersson

Jerez

Miladinovic

2023

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This study revisits the question of what impact Japanese colonialism had on the long-term economic development of North and South Korea. Factor endowments, economic activity and economic performance are compared between the regions that later became parts of North and South Korea, respectively. The study finds that important elements of the economic history of the peninsula have not been sufficiently acknowledged in much of the influential literature that uses Korea as an illustration of theoretical claims of the root causes of development. In particular, the fact that the economic divergence of northern and southern regions could be traced back to different colonial treatments – especially after mid-1920s – has often been overlooked when analysing the divergent post-partition development trajectories. The study suggests, based on a sectoral similarities analysis, that the initial dissimilar economic performance of North and South can at least partially be found in differences in political economy and economic trajectories preceding the partition.

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confidence: 99%