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Why have some developing countries industrialized and become more prosperous rapidly while others have not? This study argues that the main reason is more or less effective states. Focusing on South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria, the study describes both the characteristics of more or less effective states and explains why states in some parts of the developing world are more effective. The study takes a long historical approach, emphasizing the role of colonialism in leaving behind more or less effective states, and the relationship of these states with business and labor in helping explain more or less success in promoting economic progress.Read More

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    The study undertakes a comparative analysis of the state as an economic actor in developing countries. Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? An answer to this question is developed by focusing both on patterns of state construction and patterns of state intervention aimed at promoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over the twentieth century.The states in these countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly in Nigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states have been most effective at promoting industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the least. The performance of fragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle. After explaining in detail as to why this should be so, the study traces the origins of these different state types historically, emphasizing the role of different types of colonialisms in the process of state construction in the developing world.

  • 0521836700
  • 9780521836708
  • Atul Kohli
  • 13 September 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 480
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