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  • Riding the Wave

    An East Asian Miracle for the 21st Century

    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Developing East Asia and Pacific has led the way in showing how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty. As this book shows, the region has achieved even more: the wave of prosperity across the region since the 1980s has lifted three out of five of its citizens into economic security, where their risk of falling into poverty is minimal. And a solid middle class has emerged ... Read more

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  • A Resurgent East Asia

    Navigating a Changing World

    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    East Asia has been a paragon of global development success. The dramatic transformation of the region over the past half century—with a succession of countries having progressed from low-income to middle-income and even to high-income status—has been built on what has come to be known as the "East Asian development model." A combination of policies that fostered outward-oriented, labor-intensive ... Read more

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  • A Resurgent East Asia

    Navigating a Changing World

    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    East Asia has been a paragon of global development success. The dramatic transformation of the region over the past half century—with a succession of countries having progressed from low-income to middle-income and even to high-income status—has been built on what has come to be known as the “East Asian development model.†? A combination of policies that fostered outward-oriented, labor-intensive ... Read more

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