The Emergence of Developmental States from a New Institutionalist Perspective — A Comparative Analysis of East Asia and Central Asia

This book addresses the relevance of institutional arrangements in East Asian developmental states for the Central Asian countries. It is argued that the Central Asian transition countries share crucial similarities with the economies of East Asia. By a detailed analysis of historical developments in Northeast and Southeast Asia, a coherent and comprehensive model of the developmental state on the basis of the New Institutional Economics is developed in this book. This model is applied to Central Asia by a comparative study on the basis of semi-structured interviews that were carried out in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Both Central Asian countries show notable similarities but also crucial differences to the East Asian developmental states.

Manuel Stark, graduation and dissertation at the Department of Economics at the EBS Universitat fur Wirtschaft und Recht. The author focuses his research on institutional reform and the drivers for economic success in emerging economies.