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Comparing a poor country’s GDP with South Korea’s at independence is a shallow argument that hides the differences that actually decided the outcome.

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  1. Oliver Kim

    Development economist and economic historian who writes…

    Recalls holdingHaving fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.

    Their words nowThe author, of course, was me, in a coauthored paper with Jen Kuan Wang on Taiwan’s 1950s land reform. Mea culpa! We’ve since revised it.

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    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org

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