This book presents a broad descriptive and quantitative evaluation of industrial policies in four East Asian economies — Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore — with a special focus on Singapore. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the discussions on the concept of industrial policy within the East Asian context and quantitative assessments of these policies through productivity analyses and CGE modeling, especially where Singapore is concerned. It demonstrates evidence for the positive role of industrial policies and government activism in welfare improvements and industrial development.
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Chapter 1: Introduction (57 KB)
Contents:
- Industrial Policies in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
- Industrial Policies in Singapore
- A Comparison of Industrial Policies in Singapore with Those in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
- Labor Productivity and Labor Reallocation: The Singapore Case
- Total Factor Productivity and Resource Reallocation
- Productivity Growth and Resource Allocation: An International Comparison of Singapore with East Asia
- A CGE Model for the Singapore Economy
- Policy Experiments for Japan, Korea, and Singapore
Readership: Economists; advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in East Asian economies; experts in CGE modeling.
“The book successfully shows with careful and first-rate quantitative study that the industrial policy of Singapore, featured in its emphasis on the resource allocation policy and in less direct interventions in comparison with Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, had contributed to her economic growth and welfare increase. The implications from the study are particularly useful for developing countries striving for industrialization under economic globalization.”
Professor Hiroshi Osada
Nagoya University, Japan
K Ali Akkemik received his PhD in international development from Nagoya University (Japan) in 2006. He joined the Department of Economics at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey in October 2007. Ali Akkemik has published several articles, delivered several lectures, and written book chapters about industrial policies, structural changes, and productivity in East Asia and Turkey. His current research interests are East Asian industrial policies, regionalization in Asia, general equilibrium modeling, productivity analysis, electricity market reforms in Turkey, and trade and macroeconomic policies of Turkey. He teaches international economics and macroeconomics at Baskent University.
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Chapter 1: Introduction (57 KB)
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