Title:	Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success
Authors:	Ilcheong Yi Thandika Mkandawire
Keywords:	Learning
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This volume provides a new perspective on South Korea’s experience by analyzing the country’s development through the lens of social policy, identifying key policy initiatives and their interlinkages. As the editors note, ‘there are no automatic mechanisms for transforming eco- nomic growth into social welfare’. The objective of this book, rather, is to ‘identify the implicit and explicit social policy measures behind what has been a virtuous circle of economic growth and human develop- ment’ (p. 3). The book demonstrates that social policies were not only instrumental to production, with a strong focus on social investment (in infrastructure and human capital), but were also focused on intrin- sic social goals through mechanisms of protection and distribution. The chapters also show how a complex set of interrelated policies for economic and social development evolved  – whether with intent or through serendipity – in the South Korean case. The findings presented in this volume also challenge a tendency in the development literature, and among donor countries eager to dis- seminate the lessons of their own experiences, to interpret successful development as composed only of good things, neglecting inevitable failures. The book aims to correct the tendency to interpret a develop- mental history full of trial and error as a case of mechanical causation, or to distort the past to win contemporary ideological battles. This correction is crucial to making international development cooperation effective and beneficial for developing countries.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53017
ISBN:	978-1-137-33948-5
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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