An East Asian Model of Economic Development: Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea

@article{Kuznets1988AnEA,
  title={An East Asian Model of Economic Development: Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea},
  author={Paul W. Kuznets},
  journal={Economic Development and Cultural Change},
  year={1988},
  volume={36},
  pages={S11 - S43},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153899556}
}
The East Asian model of economic development focuses on 5 shared characteristics that seem significant in the contemporary economic development of Japan Taiwan and Korea. They are economic… 
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