What Oliver Kim thinks about infrastructure
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 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Oliver Kim has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe fact remains that without a stock of capable administrators, industrial policy and export targeting and infrastructure-building—or even Adam Smith’s minimum of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice”—are a nonstarter.
↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 4th of 8 in this piece