Open AccessFour Asian Tigers' Political and Economic Development Revisited 1998-2017: From the Perspective of National Identity
Author(s) -
Dong-Ching Day
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian journal of interdisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-8430
DOI - 10.54392/ajir2147
Subject(s) - developmental state , national identity , politics , per capita , development economics , identity (music) , state (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , national development , china , political science , economic growth , east asia , geography , asian values , economics , sociology , demography , population , physics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , acoustics , computer science , law
Developmental state used to be and is still regarded as a very practical theory to explain why Four Asian Tigers-Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore enjoyed almost averagely double-digit economic growth rate each year from 1970 to 1990 as well as East Asian economic development. However, developmental state theory couldn’t tell why South Korea and Singapore’s economic development had done much better than Taiwan and Hong Kong’s in terms of GDP per capita after 2003 and 2004 respectively. The aim of the study is trying to use national identity perspective to explain why it happens like this, since Four Asian Tigers’ economic development more or less was troubled by national identity issue. The major difference between these two groups is that South Korea and Singapore have done better in dealing with national identity issue than Taiwan and Hong Kong.