Japan and the developing countries : a comparative analysis / edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Gustav Ranis with Larry Meissner.

Contributor Okawa, Kazushi, 1908-1993.

Imprint:Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Basil Blackwell, 1985.

Descriptionviii, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"Published on behalf of the International Development Center of Japan and the Economic Growth Center of Yale University."

Note:Initial conditions, institutional changes, policy, and their consequences: Siam and Japan, 1850-1914 / Yasukichi Yasuba and Likhit Dhiravegin. - Economic development in historical perspective: Japan, Korea, and Taiwan / John C. Fei, Kazushi Ohkawa, and Gustav Ranis. - Agricultural growth against a land-resource constrint: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines / Masao Kikuchi and Yujiro Hayami. - Agricultural technology and income distribution: two Indonesian villages viewed from the Japanese experience / Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi. - The impact of improved cassava technology on small farming in Colombia / Le Thanh Nghiep and John K. Lynam. - Determinants of technology choice: the Indian and Japanese cotton industries / Gustav Ranis and Gary Saxonhouse. - Technology choice and the quality dimension in the Japanese cotton textile industry / Gary Saxonhouse and Gustav Ranis. - Supply and demand for quality workers in cotton spinning in Japan and India / Gary Saxonhouse and Yukihiko Kiyokawa. - Technology choice in cotton textile manufacturing / Gary Saxonhouse. - Borrowed technology in iron and steel: Brazil, India, and Japan / Akira Ono. - Changes in intersectoral terms of trade and their effects on labor transfer / Susumu Hondai. - Resource flows from agriculture: Japan and India / Ashoka Mody, Sudipto Mundle, and K. N. Raj. - Government credit to the banking system: rural banks in 19th-century Japan and the postwar Philippines / Juro Teranishi. - Philippine private domestic commercial banking, 1946-80, in the light of Japanese experience / Hugh Patrick and Honorata A. Moreno. - Manufactured exports from developing countries: the Thai textile industry and the Japanese experience / Ippei Yamazawa and Somsak Tambunlertchai. - Is the division of labor limited by the extent of the market? A study of automobile parts production in East and Southeast Asia / Konosuke Odaka. - Trading companies and the expansion of foreign trade: Japan, Korea, and Thailand / Ippei Yamazawa and Hirohisa Kohama.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.

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