2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Paths of Economic Development in Emerging States in International Comparative Perspective

Planned Research

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Project Area	Studying Interactions between Politics and Economic Development in Emerging Countries
Project/Area Number	25101005
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Review Section	Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Institution	Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2017-2018) National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2013-2016)
Principal Investigator	Sugihara Kaoru 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 特任教授 (60117950)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	神田さやこ慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 教授 (00296732) 久保亨信州大学, 人文学部, 特任教授 (10143520) 谷本雅之東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 教授 (10197535) 脇村孝平大阪市立大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (30230931) 田辺明生東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (30262215) 太田淳慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(三田), 准教授 (50634375) 城山智子東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 教授 (60281763) 島田竜登東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 准教授 (80435106) 岡崎哲二東京大学, 大学院経済学研究科(経済学部), 教授 (90183029) 小堀聡名古屋大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (90456583)
Research Collaborator	KOBATASHI Atsushi
Project Period (FY)	2013-06-28 – 2018-03-31
Keywords	新興国 / 発展経路 / 経済史 / アジア / グローバルヒストリー / 発展径路
Outline of Final Research Achievements	This project studied the paths of economic development emerging states followed in comparative historical perspective, with special reference to Asia. While economic historians suggested that industrialization in Western Europe and East Asia followed different paths by adapting to local factor endowment conditions, it has been argued that the regions which underwent colonialism, for example in South and Southeast Asia, were integrated into the world economy as exporters of primary products, and do not have such a strong path dependency which transcends political changes. We examined the growth of local and regional trade in these regions before, during and after the colonial period, and suggested that, while trade greatly mitigated local resource constraints, constraints of non-tradable goods such as water and local biomass often became barriers to rapid change. On both grounds we suggest the presence of path dependency, and multiple paths of long-term economic development.
Free Research Field	経済史
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	過去四半世紀のあいだ、先進工業国の経済的停滞のなかで、中国や南アジアの人口稠密地域を含むいくつかの新興国で高い経済成長率が持続されてきたのはなぜか。欧米や日本の工業化の歴史と、そこで起きた技術・制度の革新の画期性を踏まえて、この問いに学術的な回答を与えることは、21世紀における国際秩序の動向を見極めるうえできわめて重要である。本研究は新興国が資源制約をいかに乗り越えようとしたか、そこにはどのような制約があったかについて、比較史的な見取り図を提供する。