Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Overview: Learning from Developmental Success

   1. Overview: Learning from Developmental Success

      • Thandika Mkandawire, Ilcheong Yi

      Pages 1-7

3. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Lessons from the Social Policy and Development of South Korea: An Interrogation

      • Thandika Mkandawire

      Pages 11-30

   3. The Korean Experience and the Twenty-first-Century Transition to a Capability-Enhancing Developmental State

      • Peter Evans

      Pages 31-53

   4. Securing the Home Market: A New Approach to Korean Development

      • Alice Amsden

      Pages 54-88

4. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Institutional Linkages between Social Protection Measures and Industrialization in South Korea

      • Jooha Lee

      Pages 91-107

   3. The Development of Transformative Social Policy in South Korea: Lessons from the Korean Experience

      • Moo-Kwon Chung

      Pages 108-135

   4. The Saemaul Undong in Historical Perspective and in the Contemporary World

      • Mike Douglass

      Pages 136-171

   5. How Could the Enhancement of Education and Health Contribute to Economic Growth in South Korea?

      • Ilcheong Yi

      Pages 172-194

5. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Effective Aid and Development Cooperation in South Korea

      • Ilcheong Yi, Olive Cocoman, You-ah Chung, Hyunjoo Rhee

      Pages 197-215

   3. Learning through Localizing International Transfers: South Korea’s Development Experiences

      • Taekyoon Kim

      Pages 216-234

   4. The South Korean Developmental Alliance between Business, Labor and Government

      • Eun Mee Kim

      Pages 235-255

6. Part IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

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   2. Change and Continuity in Social Policy Responses to Economic Crises in South Korea: 1979–81 versus 1997–98

      • Jae-jin Yang

      Pages 259-275

   3. Effective but Uneven: Korean Development from a Gender Perspective

      • Jinock Lee

      Pages 276-296

   4. Korean Responses to Environmental Challenges: Origins, Drivers and Impacts of Green Growth on Development

      • Manohar Pawar, Taewook Huh

      Pages 297-311

7. Back Matter

   Pages 312-358

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This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present lessons for development in the 21st century. Situating the development experience of South Korea within the framework of the capability enhancing state, this volume examines the empowering institutions and policies of South Korea between 1945 and 2000.

• development
• Development Cooperation
• economic growth
• growth
• social policy
• transition

• UNRISD, UK

  Ilcheong Yi

• African Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Thandika Mkandawire

• Swedish Research Council, Sweden

  Thandika Mkandawire

Thandika Mkandawire is Chair in African Development at LSE and Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Swedish Research Council. Earlier he was Director of UNRISD; and Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. He has published widely on problems of policy making, adjustment and democratization.
 
Ilcheong Yi is Research Coordinator at UNRISD. His research interests are issues related to the developmental state, social policy in developing countries and macro-level development strategies. His recent publications are mainly related to the welfare state and health policies in developing countries.

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