Agriculture and Economic Development in East Asia: From Growth to Protectionism in Japan, Korea and Taiwan

ISBN-13: 9780415178860 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 270 str.

Joanna Boestel;Penelope Francks;Choo Hyop Kim

Opis

In recent years there has been much interest in the economic rise of East Asia. However, little attention has been paid to the agricultural sector helping to underpin that industrial and commercial development. Agriculture has now become the focus of increasingly bitter economic disputes, especially over protection and the use of import tariffs. This study describes and analyzes agriculture's contribution to the East Asian model of development and the reasons behind the dramatic rise in agricultural protection. The authors employ case studies from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea that cover the decades of rapid economic growth and industrialization, as well as the more recent period of agricultural adjustment. A comparative framework is used to highlight both the common characteristics of agriculture's role in the region's development, and particular features of the political economy of agriculture in each country, against the background of rapid economic and political change.

A comparative study which describes and analyses the contribution of agriculture to the economies of East Asia. Until now, little attention has been paid to the agricultural sector which actually underpins industrial and commercial development. Recently, this sector has become the focus of increasingly bitter economic disputes, especially over protection and the use of import tariffs.
A comparative framework is used, employing case studies from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea to highlight both the common characteristics of agriculture's role in East Asian development, and features particular to the political economy of agriculture in each country.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Agriculture and industrialisation; Chapter 2 East Asian agriculture; Chapter 3 The role of agriculture in Japanese industrialisation; Chapter 4 The state and agricultural adjustment in industrial Japan; Chapter 5 Agriculture and industrialisation in Korea; Chapter 6 Agricultural adjustment in industrial Korea; Chapter 7 The role of agriculture in Taiwan’s economic development; Chapter 8 Agricultural adjustment in industrial Taiwan; Chapter 9 Conclusions;

O autorze

Penelope Francks is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Leeds. She is also the author of Technology and Agricultural Development in Fre-War Japan and Japanese Economic Development. Johanna Boestel and Choo Hyop Kim are completing PhDs on aspects of Taiwanese and Korean economic development at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Sheffield, respectively.