With the collapse of the Soviet economy in the early 1990s, Japan has become the major non-Western model for late developing countries. This book looks at Japan's early economic modernisation to see if today's low-income countries can learn any lessons.

Nafziger, E. Wayne

Chapter 1 The Japanese Development Model; Chapter 2 Economic Autonomy and Adapting Foreign Technology; Chapter 3 Guided Capitalism; Chapter 4 The State and Indigenous Capitalism; Chapter 5 Transfer of Agricultural Surplus; Chapter 6 Low Industrial Wages; Chapter 7 Industrial Dualism; Chapter 8 Export Expansion and Import Substitution; Chapter 9 Applying the Japanese Development Model;