The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies

by Alice H . Amsden (Author)

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  2004

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  After World War II a select number of countries outside Japan and the West-those that Alice Amsden calls the rest -gained market share in modern industries and altered global competition. By 2000, a great divide had developed within the rest , the lines drawn according to prewar manufacturing experience and equality in income distribution. China, India, Korea and Taiwan had built their own national manufacturing enterprises that were investing heavily in R&D. Their developmental states had transformed themselves into champions of science and technology. By contrast, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico had experienced a wave of acquisitions and mergers that left even more of their leading enterprises controlled by multinational firms. The developmental states of Mexico and Turkey had become hand-tied by membership in NAFTA and the European Union. Which model of late industrialization will prevail, the independent or the integrationist, is a question that challenges the twenty-first century.