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Studwell s book is a warning to those who believe that developing countries in asia, latin america and now africa have cracked the secret of growth and will inevitably catch up with rich ones. Named by bill gates as one of his top 5 books of the yearan economist best book of the year in the 1980s and 1990s many in the west came to believe in the myth of an eastasian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally. There will be more on china in the new book, how asia works. Studwells book does a better job than anything else ive read of. How asia works by joe studwell, 9781846682438, available at book depository.
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