4. Introduction
Same Culture background(Confucianism)
Affected by Western countries
Stable political enviroment
High growth rates (excess 7 percent per year)
Rapid industrialization
5. Hong Kong
Rapid industrialization driven by exports
Low taxation and free trade
Service-based economy in the 1980s
GDP grew 180 times (1961~1997)
largest re-export center
6. Singapore
Foreign direct investment and a state-led drive
One of the least corrupt countries
Skilled workforce
Depends heavily on exports and refining imported goods
Tourism(medical tourism)
7. South Korea
Heavily dependent on international trade
Outward-looking strategy in early 1960s
Government initiatives
huge national conglomerates
8. Taiwan
19-point program of Economic and Financial Reform
Help of USAID
Liberalized market controls