What Oliver Kim thinks about education

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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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1. 21 Jan 2025

   Our readingSouth Korea and Taiwan began their miracles with far more schooling than their income implied, and African states with far less.

   Their wordsAt independence, South Korea and Taiwan had far higher rates of primary education than most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

   ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 1st of 8 in this piece