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Fast-track Capitalism, Geoeconomic Competition, and the Sustainable Development Challenge in East Asia

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Globalization and the South

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The explosive economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region continues to fixate the attention of economic policy-makers, corporate leaders, and academic thinkers throughout the world. For the US economic and political establishment, East Asia has moved from being a partner in the Cold War to being a competitor for global economic hegemony. In Europe, there is much worry in government and corporate circles about the contrast between what is fashionably termed ‘Eurosclerosis’ and East Asian dynamism. And in much of the South, Asian capitalism’ has replaced socialism as the new paradigm of development.

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Bello, W. (1997). Fast-track Capitalism, Geoeconomic Competition, and the Sustainable Development Challenge in East Asia. In: Thomas, C., Wilkin, P. (eds) Globalization and the South. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25633-4_9

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