- Consulting Editors
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim
- Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim
- Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim
- International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim
- Age Compositional Shifts and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Selected Asian Countries
- Human Capital Trends in the Pacific Rim
- Economic Growth and Performance on the Pacific Rim
- The New Structural Economics and Strategies for Sustained Economic Development in the Pacific Island Countries
- The Evolution of Fiscal Developments and Policies in the Pacific Rim
- Asia in Global Economic Governance
- Geoeconomics Versus Geopolitics: Implications for Asia
- The Political Economy of Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements
- Global Production Sharing and Trade Patterns in East Asia
- Foreign Trade of the Pacific-Rim Economies
- Are the Geese Still Flying? Catch-Up Industrialization in a Changing International Economic Environment
- Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment, and the East Asian Economic Integration
- The Impact of Industrial Policy on Asian Growth: An Example From Taiwan
- Creative Industries: Socio-Economic Transformation as the New Face of Innovation
- The Road to Innovation in East Asia
- Asian Financial Crises
- The “Impossible Trinity,” The International Monetary Framework, and the Pacific Rim
- Rethinking Capital Account Liberalization
- Asian Currencies in the Global Imbalance and Global Financial Crisis
- Rebalancing of the World Economy and Asia
- China’s Financial Openness and Asset Return Linkages in East Asia
- The Offshore RMB Market in Hong Kong and RMB Internationalization
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter examines literature on catch-up industrialization in the context of the experience of the Asian Pacific economies. It provides a summary of the “flying geese” or product cycle model of waves of industrialization and discusses three aspects of catch-up industrialization: shifting manufacturing from consumer to capital goods, increasing sophistication of production, and economy-level development . It discusses a possible new version of the flying geese model and highlights the increased importance of activity-level economies of scale as a result of the disaggregation of production into more specialized and geographically dispersed stages.
Keywords: catch-up industrialization, Asian Pacific economies, flying geese model, economies of scale, disaggregation of production, product cycle model
Inderjit N. Kaur is Research Fellow at University of San Francisco.
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- Consulting Editors
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim
- Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim
- Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim
- International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim
- Age Compositional Shifts and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Selected Asian Countries
- Human Capital Trends in the Pacific Rim
- Economic Growth and Performance on the Pacific Rim
- The New Structural Economics and Strategies for Sustained Economic Development in the Pacific Island Countries
- The Evolution of Fiscal Developments and Policies in the Pacific Rim
- Asia in Global Economic Governance
- Geoeconomics Versus Geopolitics: Implications for Asia
- The Political Economy of Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements
- Global Production Sharing and Trade Patterns in East Asia
- Foreign Trade of the Pacific-Rim Economies
- Are the Geese Still Flying? Catch-Up Industrialization in a Changing International Economic Environment
- Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment, and the East Asian Economic Integration
- The Impact of Industrial Policy on Asian Growth: An Example From Taiwan
- Creative Industries: Socio-Economic Transformation as the New Face of Innovation
- The Road to Innovation in East Asia
- Asian Financial Crises
- The “Impossible Trinity,” The International Monetary Framework, and the Pacific Rim
- Rethinking Capital Account Liberalization
- Asian Currencies in the Global Imbalance and Global Financial Crisis
- Rebalancing of the World Economy and Asia
- China’s Financial Openness and Asset Return Linkages in East Asia
- The Offshore RMB Market in Hong Kong and RMB Internationalization
- Author Index
- Subject Index
