Economic Growth in East Asia

Douglas Galbi

Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
Economic History
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
Distribution: Income, Wealth, Other

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Over the past three decades remarkable economic growth has occured in East Asia. This policy forum will examine key features of economic growth in eight East Asian economies: Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan/China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. This forum will also focus on some central ideas of growth theory. Tools and concepts from growth theory provide important insights into the East Asian experience. This experience, in turn, also provides new insights into the process of economic growth. One goal of this forum is to confront growth theory with an important example of economic growth, and in doing so promote understanding of both growth theory and an outstanding growth experience.