The newly industrializing countries (NICs) of East Asia have undergone rapid economic expansion over the past twenty vears. Unlike NICs elsewhere in the Third W

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A study which challenges the dominant understanding of Singapore as a case where "correct" policies have made rapid industrialization possible and which raises

Explains the compatibility of economic development and democracy in the United States during industrialization.

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