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The answer you get has a lot to do with the question you ask. Almost all of the development theory literature on the political economy of East Asia asks only one central question: what explains the spectacular record of sustained high rates of economic growth and the successful upgrading of the national industrial structure? Any critique of this literature must begin with the relative poverty of this central question.
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Gills, DS.S. (1999). Introduction. In: Rural Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983324_1
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