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Devil's Advocate - in 1954, South Korea was at least as poor as most of Sub-Saharan Africa, if not poorer.
by maeil 4y ago
Devil's Advocate - in 1954, South Korea was at least as poor as most of Sub-Saharan Africa, if not poorer.
- singleshot_ 4y agoSingapore
- dredmorbius 4y agoSouth Korea, Taiwan, and Japan were benefited hugely by becoming significant considerations within the US Cold War calculus against both the Soviet Union and China. There was both direct engagement through defence spending and presence, as well as policy designed to specifically encourage trade relations with the US and Europe. That hit critical mass in the 1960s (Japan) and 1970s/80s (Korea). All three regions were otherwise strongly unified culturally had had relatively little history of colonisation (arguably less so for Korea, which had in fact been occupied by Japan, than Japan or Taiwan).
- dan-robertson 4y agoI don’t understand what your argument is? I’m not denying that other countries developed but my (admittedly very poor) understanding of development economics is that there are some vague theories of ways that countries might develop but many attempts to develop have been stymied in practice in different ways in different countries in different places all around the world.