Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasInstitute for International Economics, 2000 - 431 pagine On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden-and possibly nuclear-armed-totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and "muddling through" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation. |
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... percent annually between 1960 and 1973 , with 1.6 percentage points of this explained by human capital accumulation and the remaining 2.4 percentage points a pure productivity increase . Looking at a slightly longer and more recent ...
... percent in January 1992 and subsequently raised to 12 percent in December 1994 , 15 percent in July 1995 , and 18 percent in April 1996. In June 1996 , the government announced a further phased opening that would increase the ceiling to 20 ...
... percent , due to a whopping 29 percent fall in domestic demand . The current account surplus shot to roughly 14 percent of GDP , driven by a collapse of import demand . By mid - 1998 , capacity utilization was down 17 percent . As ...
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Introduction | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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