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1. Introduction -- 2. Current Debates and Theoretical Arguments -- 3. Characteristics of Korean Economic Growth -- 4. The Traditional Korean Political Economic Model -- 5. Change and Continuity of the Korean Developmental Model -- 6. Politics of Evolution -- 7. Conclusion.

The book analyses and evaluates the development role and impact of the state in East Asia, in both capitalist (South Korea and Taiwan) and socialist (China) contexts. It makes use of new research data on the mechanisms and impact of state intervention in East Asian development and presents an original theory, taking issue with the conventional view that East Asian development reflects the power of market forces.

1. Rethinking the developmental state in the twenty-first century / Michelle Williams -- 2. The developmental state in retrospect and prospect : lessons from India and South Korea / Vivek Chibber -- 3. Liberal globalization, capabilities and the developmental network state in Ireland / Sean O Riain -- 4. Developmental state in transition : the state and the development of Taiwan's biopharmaceutical industry / Jenn-Hwan Wang -- 5. A Chinese developmental state : miracle or mirage? / Ching Kwan Lee -- 6. South Africa's emergent 'green developmental state'? / Vishwas Satgar -- 7. Development in an antidevelopmental state : the market politics of renewable energy in an advanced country and its implications for the environment / Barbara Harriss-White -- 8. The Brazilian social developmental state : a progressive agenda in a (still) conservative political society / Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky -- 9. Politics of democratic decentralization and the developmental state : a study of the Kerala experience / Thomas Isaac -- 10. The developmental state : divergent responses to modern economic theory and the twenty-first-century economy / Peter Evans.

The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the ""developmental state"" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept of the developmental state become outmoded? These authors would suggest not. However, they do argue that the historical trajectories of developmental states in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe suggest all too clearly that the concept must be re-examined critically and creatively.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Words of Praise for Towards a Democratic Developmental State -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK - TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENTAL STATES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Developmental States in Historical Perspective -- 2.1 The East Asian experience -- 2.2 The importance of the colonial legacy and income inequality -- 2.3 The nature and capacity of developmental states -- 2.4 Key policy strategies of developmental states -- 3.0 Democratic Developmental States in the twenty-first century and Africa -- 3.1 Expanded space for debate about developmental approaches -- 3.2 Relevance for today: from the 'developmental state' to the 'democratic developmental state' -- 4. The Structural Roots of Un- and Under-Employ-ment, Inequality and Poverty in Southern Africa: The Need for a Developmental Intervention -- 5. Terms of reference of the century case studies -- 6. Structure of the Book -- References -- 2. THE STATE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: A CASE FOR PLACING WOMEN AT THE CENTRE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background: A Heritage of Inequality and Marginalisation -- 3. Current status of Women and Girls -- 3.1 Women's socio-economic status: the least improved in the last decades -- 3.1.1 Women's access to land: a matter of life and death for many women -- 3.1.2 Limited access to other natural resources -- 3.1.3 Women's 'informalised' economic lives -- 3.1.4 Women have become the social safety nets -- 3.2 Women's political situation: no space to engage meaningfully -- 3.3 Access to justice: is separation of powers enough? -- 3.4 The state of women's movements -- 4. Structural Transformation Needed as a Lever to Pull Women to the Centre -- 4.1 The dynamics of power and privilege in the region -- 4.1.1 Power to: bringing one's agency to bear.

This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternative decolonial development project in Africa. It does this by focusing on the triple themes of African agency, development finance, and African developmental states in the context of an emerging multipolar world system. The book must be read as an affirmatively disruptive inquiry into the twin evils of global coloniality and global capitalist economic relations that have kept Africa on the lower rungs of the global pecking order, thereby preventing the rooting of an alternative development paradigm on the continent. As such, the book seeks to contribute towards the project of extricating the financing of development in Africa from the clutches of the Global North and the emerging powers of the Global South. In this way, it is a call for Afro-rebellion against the old and new forms of global coloniality and global capitalism. While the book is of major interest to scholars and students of African Studies, Development Studies, International Development Cooperation, International Relations, International Trade and Investment, Diplomacy, AfricaChina Relations, and Political Science, it is equally meant for the general reader as it assumes no prior knowledge in any of the field of enquiry other than interest in the development of the African continent. Gorden Moyo is Senior Lecturer at Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. He is also Founder of an independent think tankthe Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ). He received his Ph. D. in African Leadership Development from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He is Former Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office, and Former Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, Zimbabwe. He has edited three books and published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Asia after the Developmental State presents cutting-edge analyses of state-society transformation in Asia under globalisation. The volume incorporates a variety of political economy and public policy oriented positions, and collectively explores the uneven evolution of new public management and neoliberal agendas aimed at reordering state and society around market rationality. Taken together, the contributions explore the emergence of marketisation across Asia, including China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam - what is now often described as the world's most economically dynamic region - and the degree to which marketisation has taken root, in what forms, and how this is impacting state, society and market relationships.

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the 'developmental state' to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the 'developmental state' concept. The nature of the 'emerging state' is characterized by its attitude toward economic development and industrialization. Emerging states have engaged in the promotion of agriculture, trade, and industry and played a transformative role to pursue a certain path of economic development. Their success has cast doubt about the principle of laissez faire among the people in the developing world. This doubt, together with the progress of democratization, has prompted policymakers to discover when and how economic policies should deviate from laissez faire, what prevents political leaders and state institutions from being captured by vested interests, and what induce them to drive economic development. This book offers both historical and contemporary case studies from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. They illustrate how institutions are designed to be developmental, how political coalitions are formed to be growth-oriented, and how technocratic agencies are embedded in a network of business organizations as a part of their efforts for state building.