国際協力ニュース：ミレニアム開発目標、5年後の仕切り直し

貧困削減への取り組みは、しばしば闘いに例えられる。その伝で言えば、2000年に始まったミレニアム開発目標達成への取り組みは世界の貧困削減に向けた15年戦争である。2005年は15年の3分の1の区切りの年なので、この5年間の取り組みの回顧と仕切直しが9月14-16日の国連総会特別首脳会合において行われた。

A Comparative Study of Development Mechanisms in Korea and Taiwan: Introductory Analysis

This article is the introduction to a special issue of The Developing Economies which presented the results of a research project by the Institute of Developing Economies that examined the development mechanisms in Korea and Taiwan. Our conclusion in this article is that their development mechanisms, despite their similar development patterns of export-led industrialization, have been essentially different: a government-led mechanism in Korea as opposed to a market-led mechanism in Taiwan. We verified this difference through comparative studies of the two economies covering trade balances, the growth of total factor productivity, the scale of enterprises and business groups, and the development processes of individual manufacturing sectors. In our explanatory discussion we propose that the difference in the mechanisms is based on: 1) the amount of accumulation in the economy at the time postwar industrialization started, 2) the relationship between government and society, and 3) the mechanism of social network formation.