Developing countries: A follow-up

Developing countries: A follow-up

Photo by Encik Tekateki via Wikimedia CommonsBack in 2021-22, I wrote a series of posts about industrialization in developing countries:I tried to evaluate each country’s growth model through the lens of industrial policy — specifically, the ideas in the book How Asia Works. The basic idea of that book is that developing countries should promote productivity growth through exports, using an approach called “export discipline”. That idea — summar…