紀要論文

東南アジアにおける労働集約型工業化論の成立

The Emergence of the Labor-intensive Industrialization Strategy in Southeast Asia

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00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00001950

法政大学経済学部学会

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2006-03-03

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This paper discusses some aspects of the emergence of the strategies of industrialization in Southeast Asia during the 1970s and the 1980s in Asian comparative historical perspective. Major research projects were organised in this period under ARTEP (Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion), a Bangkok-based research wing of the ILO, to address issues on employment generation, the development of labourintensive industry, export promotion and manpower policy. Several volumes and a large number of working papers were subsequently published, reflecting the views of leading economists and policy needs of the region. The paper picks up some loosely agreed strategies that emerged from these studies, and compares them with the contemporary Indian and East Asian strategies. It suggests that their arguments contained some new insights into the developmental path taken by the region, successfully refuting the conventional strategies that aimed at economic growth, assigned the capital goods sector a leading role, and pursued import-substitution industrialization. A more flexible set of strategies, promoting the growth of labor-intensive and export industries, responding to the changing international environment of rapid industrial relocation caused by the micro-electronics revolution, and improving the quality of labor through a better provision of mass and elite education, emerged. It was important to them that a serious worsening of income inequality would be avoided.

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