State-Directed Development

Kohli, Atul

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“…Even though Korea had a long tradition of government bureaucracy and a civil service examination system, these, according to Kohli, were far from effective and modern bureaucracy became institutionalised in Korea only because of Japanese rule. 13 A significant number of Koreans was trained and employed by the Japanese colonial government and, although most Korean officials worked at lower government levels, many moved up the bureaucratic hierarchy over time. That said, it would be problematic to conclude that the South Korean developmental state was solely (or even mainly) attributable to Japanese rule.…”

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Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea

Kim

2015

Third World Quarterly

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This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilised successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. As multiple policy makers and scholars have noted, in 1957 South Korea and Ghana shared similar levels of GDP per capita, yet South Korea then achieved rapid economic development and democracy in one generation, while Ghana suffered from slow development and a general deterioration of the standard of living. In this study I adopt a comparative historical research method to explain the divergent paths of these two countries, with a special focus on the impact of foreign assistance on state transitions. I argue that contextual factors -including the effect of the colonial legacy in each of these two regions in shaping modern states, and the specific characteristics of foreign assistance intervention -provide useful insights in explaining the differential impact of aid on state building and state transition in Ghana and in South Korea.

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Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea

Kim

2015

Third World Quarterly

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“…Numerous elements of Korea's dramatic economic growth have been examined, including the importance of "flying geese" following Japan's example, the role of Cold War geopolitical support for Korean development, the role of authoritarian developmentalism, the impacts of crony capitalism, and the role of state-driven export-led industrialization (for key analyses of Korea's rapid ascent, see Amsden (1989), Appelbaum and Henderson (1992), Bradshaw, Kim and London (1993), Cumings (1984), Deyo (1987), Kohli (2004), Wade (1990a), and Woo (1991). We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing on the key generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea's rapid economic ascent.…”

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“…Burkett and Hart-Landsberg 2000;Amsden 1989Amsden , 1994Wade 1990bWade , 1996Kohli 2004;Ozawa 2001). Alternative explanations offered by these and other analysts of the rapid rise of South Korea focused on institutional patterns of the South Korean state and the chaebol (large industrial groups) (Amsden 1989;Woo 1991;Kohli 2004), the broader rise of Asia (Arrighi 1996;Arrighi, Hamashita and Selden 2003;Frank 1998;Peng 2002), and participation in the flying geese model of development led by Japan (Ozawa 2001(Ozawa , 2003(Ozawa , 2005Hayter and Edgington 2004;Kojima 2000;Korhonen 1994;Romm 1992;Cutler and Ozawa 2007). Each of these lines of analysis captures a critical element of South Korea's rapid economic ascent.…”

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“…Steel production was 46.3 million tons in 2003, 4.8% of world production (5th in the world) and the shipbuilding industry built 7,265,000 CG/T of ships, 32.4% of world production (ranked 1st in the world) (National Statistics Office 2004). South Korean ascent in the global economy prompted a number of analyses of the role of the Korean state and its policies of exportoriented industrialization, labor control, and state-business relationships (Amsden 1989;Deyo 1987;Kim 1997;Kohli 2004). The South Korean government has been flexible in shifting development policies from light industry (e.g., manufacturing of apparel and shoes) to heavy and high value-added industries such as automobiles and electronics, demonstrating its high capacity to adopt timely strategies and mobilize new technologies in response to the dynamically changing global market (Amsden 1989;D'Costa 1994).…”

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“…Several analyses of Korea's ascent pay attention to some elements of these critical sectors, for example, Amsden's (1989) pioneering analysis includes discussions of several key issues in the development of the steel industry, and other studies of state policy such as Kohli (2004), Wade (1990) and Woo (1991) use examples from these sectors. However, none of these analyses presents a coherent theoretical understanding of why these sectors are so critical for state policies, firm strategies, and Korea's overall development process.…”

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The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea: Rising East Asia and Globalization

Shin

Ciccantell

2009

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In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Korea's rapid economic ascent. We argue that a worldsystems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea's rapid economic ascent than do other theoretical models. We outline the similarities between this case and those analyzed by Ciccantell (2005, 2007)

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For the last decades, the East Asian economy (that is, the economies of China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)) has been growing remarkably to become a major axis of the global economy. In 2008, the total value of exports and imports of the region were US$4112.9 billion and US$3886.1 billion which account for 25.6 percent of world exports and 23.8 percent of world imports, respectively (WTO 2009). In the same year, Japan produced 11.56 million automobile vehicles, China 9.34 million, and South Korea (hereafter Korea) 3.87 million, which occupy 37 percent of the global production of the total of 70 million vehicles. Global steel production in 2008 was 1326.5 million metric tons; the biggest steel producing nation was China with 500.5 million tons, 37.7 percent of global production. Japan's production of steel was 118.7 million tons and Korea's 53.6 million tons, which made the region's total production 672.8 million tons; 50.7 percent of world steel production in 2008 (World Steel Association 2009). East Asian nations build more ships than any other region of the world; Korean shipbuilders completed 26 103 000 CG/T of ships, 39.4 percent of world production, Japan 18 631 000 CG/T, 28.1 percent, and China 13 735 000 CG/T, 20.7 percent in 2008 (Lloyd 2009). (Reportedly, Chinese shipbuilders grabbed the biggest market share with 26 million DWT, 61.6 percent of world orders in 2009, overtaking Korea as the world's largest shipbuilding nation; Xinhua News Agency, January 25, 2010.) The three nations' shipbuilding products constitute around 88 percent of the global shipbuilding industry.

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State-Directed Development

Cited by 853 publications

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Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea

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