Rethinking Asian Drama

Arbeitspapier

Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama in 1968, a work which made important analytical contributions to our understanding of development but was deeply pessimistic about Asia's future prospects. Since then, contrary to Myrdal's expectations, Asia's development has been remarkable, although transformations have been uneven across countries and unequal between people. This paper explains the conception and design of the UNU-WIDER study on Asian Transformations, which seeks to analyse the amazing story of economic development in Asia over the past 50 years. It begins with reflections on Gunnar Myrdal, the author, and rethinking Asian Drama, the book, in retrospect 50 years later. It goes on to outline the rationale and objective of the study. It then discusses some critical issues and lessons that emerge - diversity in development, history and context, economic growth and structural change, wellbeing of people, markets and governments, economic openness, and institutions and policies - to serve as a teaser. It concludes with some brief reflections on Asia's future prospects over the next 25 years.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-592-3
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2018/150

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; History of Economic Thought since 1925: General ; History of Economic Thought: Individuals ; Economic Methodology ; Economic Development: General ; Development Planning and Policy: General ; Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East ; Comparative Studies of Countries ; Comparative Economic Systems: General
• Thema: Asian Drama ; development ; governments ; Gunnar Myrdal ; history ; industrialization ; institutions ; markets ; openness ; transformations

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nayyar, Deepak
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2018/592-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190197
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ