What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?
New research upends conventional wisdom on what actually drives economic growth.
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Show Notes
How does a nation pull its residents out of poverty and into the developed world? The researcher Oliver Kim looked into how Taiwan, and a few other East Asian countries, managed to rise from a poor nation to the ranks of the global elite in just a short amount of time.
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