Oliver Kim
Development economist and economic historian who writes the Global Developments newsletter. He works on East Asian growth — Taiwanese land reform, Korean industrial policy — and on what the East Asian record does and does not tell other poor countries.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backHaving fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsThe 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.
↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org