Economic Liberalization and Integration in East Asia

Several years before the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, most East Asian economies with the exception of China had engaged in the liberal reform prescriptions of the Washington Consensus. The Asian financial crisis added impetus to the transformation process as the crisis countries accepted the Washington Consensus as part of their commitment to the IMF policy conditionality. In this book the author argues for the continuing validity of an 'East Asian' model of economic development that differs distinctly from the Washington Consensus. He argues that, while this model was undermined to some extent by the 1997-98 financial crisis, it remains robust and important in explaining economic events in East Asia. In doing so, he covers the accomplishments and failures of the East Asian development model and the reform agenda for a new East Asian paradigm for post-crisis development.

ISBN 0199215219   Pages 296 ISBN13 9780199215218 (What's this?)   Volumes 000 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 453 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 17 May 2007   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress HC460.5   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 330.95   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF THE EAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM; 1. Introduction; 2. Characteristics and Accomplishments of the East Asian Development Paradigm; 3. Development Policies and Governance; 4. Failures of the East Asian Development Model: An Overview; 5. Failures in Governance and Institution Building; 6. Weaknesses of the Corporate and Financial Sector; THE ASIAN CRISIS: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES; 7. The Build-up of the Crisis; 8. Causes of the East Asian Crisis: Structural Weakness vs. Liquidity Panic View; 9. A Re-evaluation of the IMF Reform Program: Wrong Diagnosis and Wrong Prescription; 10. The IMF Structural Reform: Inconsistencies in the Program; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS; 11. Reform of Government and Industrial Policy; 12. Institution Building for Governance; 13. Corporate Sector Reform; 14. Social Welfare and Industrial Relations; FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION AND OPENING; 15. Progress in and Prospects for Financial Reform; 16. Exchange Rate Regimes: Fear of Floating; 17. Capital Account Liberalization; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN EAST ASIA; 18. Trade Integration; 19. Financial Integration; 20. Prospects for Economic Cooperation and Integration; 21. Reserve Accumulation in East Asia and Trans-pacific Trade Imbalance; WHITHER ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND INTEGRATION IN EAST ASIA?; 22. In search of a New East Asian Paradigm of Development; 23. A Long Road to Anglo-Americanization; 24. New Paradigm of Development: A Mixed Economy Model; 25. Concluding Remarks

Throughout the text, Park offers a commendable balance of theoretical and empirical analysis...As a result, Park is able to reach out to a wider academic audience. Christopher M. Dent Asian Affairs

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