Regional patterns of technological development: Perspectives on developing countries in East Asia and Latin America

Innovation ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Gindo Tampubolon ◽  
Ronnie Ramlogan
Author(s):  
Manmohan Agarwal ◽  
Vandana T. R.

A number of developing countries mainly in Latin America and East Asia suffered exchange rate crises in the 1990s. India also suffered a crisis in 1991 and another earlier in 1966. We examine the run up to the crises in terms of a few macroindicators suggested by various crisis models. We then examine the aftermath of the crisis, which is largely absent in literature. We seek to explain the pre-crisis and post-crisis situations in the light of various crisis models. We find that crises in East Asia cannot be explained in terms of Krugman’s first-generation model (FGM), but those in the other countries can be explained by Krugman’s model, adding to the debates among crises models. JEL Classification: E420, F310, F320, F410


Author(s):  
David J. Gerber

This chapter identifies factors that shape all competition law regimes. These “shaping factors” serve as guideposts that highlight relevant information about a regime (“here’s where to look”) and point to the most valuable questions to ask for understanding it. These include, for example: size, openness, and technological capacity of the economy; political and bureaucratic contexts of competition law; importance of the “rule of law”; and ideologies, culture, and religion, and global role of the state. A particularly influential shaping factor can create similarities among competition law regimes that are otherwise difficult to recognize. Three examples show the value of identifying such factors: East Asia (bureaucratic centralism), Latin America (embedded social stratification), and developing countries (recent colonialism). Recognizing these factors and their influence can be of great value in looking at any regime! The objective is to penetrate the details, make sense of them, and guide entry into and through them.


Author(s):  
Silja Häusermann ◽  
Bruno Palier

Recent research on the development of social investment has demonstrated reform progress not only in different regions of Europe, but also in Latin America and South-East Asia. However, the specific substance of the social investment agendas varies strongly between these regions. Why have social investment ideas and policies been more developed in some regions and countries than in others? Building on the theoretical framework of this volume, our chapter suggests that the content of regional social investment agendas depends on policy legacies in terms of investment vs consumption-oriented policies and their interaction with structural pressures. In a second step, we argue that the chances of social investment agendas to be implemented depend on the availability of political support coalitions between organizational representatives of the educated middle classes and either business or working-class actors. We illustrate our claims with reference to family policy developments in France, Germany, and Switzerland.


Author(s):  
Joerg Baten ◽  
Christina Mumme

AbstractThis paper explores the inequality of numeracy and education by studying school years and numeracy of the rich and poor, as well as of tall and short individuals. To estimate numeracy, the age-heaping method is used for the 18th to early 20th centuries. Testing the hypothesis that globalization might have increased the inequality of education, we find evidence that 19th century globalization actually increased inequality in Latin America, but 20th century globalization had positive effects by reducing educational inequality in a broader sample of developing countries. Moreover, we find strong evidence for Kuznets’s inverted U hypothesis, that is, rising educational inequality with GDP per capita in the period until 1913 and the opposite after 1945.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sidney Xu Lu

Abstract This article explains how the US westward expansion influenced and stimulated Japanese migration to Brazil. Emerging in the nineteenth century as expanding powers in East Asia and Latin America, respectively, both Meiji Japan and post-independence Brazil looked to the US westward expansion as a central reference for their own processes of settler colonialism. The convergence of Japan and Brazil in their imitation of US settler colonialism eventually brought the two sides together at the turn of the twentieth century to negotiate for the start of Japanese migration to Brazil. This article challenges the current understanding of Japanese migration to Brazil, conventionally regarded as a topic of Latin American ethnic studies, by placing it in the context of settler colonialism in both Japanese and Brazilian histories. The study also explores the shared experiences of East Asia and Latin America as they felt the global impact of the American westward expansion.


1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor P. Blishchenko

In pursuing a consistent policy of peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems, proletarian internationalism, and strengthening relations with socialist and developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Soviet State concludes over 400 treaties and agreements a year.


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