Re: Amartya Sen: democracy is not "Western"

[Anthony D'Costa <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tha Japanese may have put a in reasonable education system in Korea (I
can't be sure, the sourecs are at work!)  But if education is used to
explain Korean development then one must also attribute Korean meritocracy
in the more Confucian inspired bureaucracy.  After all the bureaucracy in
SK under the EPB (economic planning board) played an important role.

anthony

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On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Michael Perelman wrote:

> This article is terrific.  For those of you who are not economists, the beginning
> section about why Korea has developed relative to Ghana trashes an explanation which
> is almost as common among economists as supply and demand.
>
> I did have one question about the article.  I thought the Japanese imperialists put a
> fairly good educational system in place in Korea.
>
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> Michael Perelman
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