Learning from the Japanese Japan's Pre-War Development and the Third World

This book looks at Japan's early economic modernization to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons. The author focuses on education, technology policy, capital formation, the transfer of savings from agriculture to industry, state aid to the private sector, improvement engineering in the informal sector, low wages, industrial dualism, export expansion, and resistance to Western imperialism (a strategy which included acquiring its own empire) under Japan's "guided capitalism."Nafziger, E. Wayne is the author of 'Learning from the Japanese Japan's Pre-War Development and the Third World' with ISBN 9781563244865 and ISBN 1563244861.