Education and Training for Development in East Asia
The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialized Economies

The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth.

Education and Training for Economic Development in Asia provides policy makers with a new model of the skill formation process. It has important practical implications for all those concerned with facilitating the process of economic development: from policy makers or sociologists to those involved in comparative education, labour market studies and development economics.

List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations. 1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Devleopmental State and the Education and Training System 3.
Singapore 4. South Korea 5. Taiwan 6. Hong Kong 7. Is There
a 'Four Tigers' Model of Skill Formation? 8. On the Diffusion of The Model. Appendix: List of Authorities Consulted. Bibliography.