2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Distributive Conflicts and Economic Development in Asian Perspective
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10630034
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
経済政策(含経済事情)
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
TERANISHI Juro Professor of the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, 経済研究所, 教授 (70017664)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | distributive conflicts / state-private sector interface / industry / Brazil / classes / Japan / macroeconomic stability / governance |
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| Research Abstract |
Distributive conflicts in the private sector do not usually complete themselves within the private sector, but quite often involves government intervention. This study has conducted a historical and comparative investigation about how distributive conflicts in the private sector is aggregated and how the government responded to the distributive conflicts.
The state-private sector interface regarding distributive conflicts differs considerably among countries and regions as well as among historical phases of each country. In Japan after WWII, distributive demand by the private sector was represented by the interests of each industry, and the government responded to this by specifying specific bureaus for each industry. In Brazil after WWII, distributive conflicts was represented by the interests of classes or by the ownership of production factors. The government responded this by intervening into minimum wage determination or other measures. In other countries in East Asia, interface similar to Japan has emerged after the 1980s, especially in Thailand. However, in Korea distributive conflicts among classes have been intensified throughout the postwar years.
The pattern of state-private sector interface regarding distributive conflicts has significant bearings on the macroeconomic stability as well as on the overall governance of the economy. We have investigated how inflation is related to the interface in the Brazilian case, and how the bubble burst in Japan after 1990 has been related to the pattern of interface in the preceding high-growth-era.
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