Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Four Asian Tigers
- Taiwan
- S.Korea
- N.E Asia borders N
Korea, sea of japan +
yellow sea
- Lacks natural resources,
has good workforce, export
orientation
- Causes
- Encouraged FDI
- Deve own R+D of
hightech goods
- Large TNCs
attracted to low
wages and low
tax
- Large consumer market
- Strengths
- Successful competition
- More jobs available
- increase in purchase of consumer goods
- increase in disposable income
- investment in infrastructure
- Consequences
- Social
- Unequal pay
- Long working hours
- Increase rural-urban migration
- Enviro
- Noise, air, water pollution
- Poorly constructed buildings
- Leads to deaths eg Sampoong Dep store '95
- Economic
- '97 world trade downturn, huge debts/bankruptcy
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- How did the tigers help deve
- All 4 countries had a large
chinease influence
- SK 65% chinease pop
- S 75% Chinease pop
- HK 95%
- T 98%
- '60's poor due to cheap labour
- Non-democratic authoritarian
polictical systems
- Focused deve on exports to wealthy nations
- Trade serplus with industrialised countries
- Education important. All children
attended Primary then secondary
schools, investment in foriegn unis
- High tariffs on imports discouraged
- High saving rates allowing investment into industry
- Trade unions discouraged but job security
encouraged
- Able to sustain good growth for decades
- Agg protected by tariffs
- More investment
- A good model for other countries?
- Critised rely on exports
- Rely on economic
health of others
- But India + China followed
their lead
- '90's set back
- economy grew too fast
- property,
stocks, shares
over valued
- Stock markets crashed
- Led to the WW financial crisis
- >90's stability
- Regulated by
framework to help
prevent another crisis
- Export led growth +
cheap labour dont last
forever