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Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia - Implications for the Rest (Hardcover)
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Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia - Implications for the Rest (Hardcover)
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Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since
1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining
high growth. The aim of Dictators, Democrats and Development in
Southeast Asia is to examine how dictators and democrats in three
of the nine fast growers -Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand,
hereafter IMT-built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions
that enabled them to adopt policies that ushered in sustained high
growth. The focus is on IMT because circa 1960 few thought the
three were candidates for high growth and because the three have
factor endowments, ethnic heterogeneity, and forms of governance
that resemble the Rest. These similarities suggest the Rest may
have much to learn from IMT. The focus is unabashedly on the
politics of development in IMT because dictators and democrats in
IMT built and sustained pro-growth political coalitions that
enabled them to link their long term political survival with
delivering development. How and why they did so should be of keen
interest to the Rest. Because dictators and democrats in IMT were
committed to capitalist, industrial and open economy development
strategies but deeply suspicious of a laissez faire approach to
development, none of the three ever adopted a Washington Consensus
style growth strategy. While all three toyed with a Northeast style
capitalist developmental state approach to growth, because
governments in IMT lacked the political requisites to make this
strategy work, none really stuck to this approach to growth either.
Instead dictators and democrats in IMT implemented highly pragmatic
growth and development strategies. When markets worked, governments
used them. When interventions worked governments relied on them.
When either failed to deliver expected results, governments weeded
out bad investments to sustain high growth. Such a pragmatic, trial
and error approach to development should also be of keen interest
to the Rest.
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