Great Policies: Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin
This book describes 11 great policies—strategic innovations designed to deal with problems that transcend normal boundaries of government action. Examples range from the Marshall Plan in the U.S. to the reverse brain-drain policy in China, and from the financing of land reform by the distribution of industrial bonds in Taiwan to exploration of community natural resource management in Latin America. These actions did not emerge incrementally from existing policies, but represented departures...
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Examines 11 "great policies" or strategic innovations designed to deal with problems that transcended normal government action. Booknews Scholars of public policy and regional and international studies describe large-scale policy changes of Asian and Pacific countries. Among them are land reform and export-led growth in Taiwan, Japanese educational innovations, China's study-abroad policy in 1978-93, rural development in Thailand, and natural resource management in Columbia and Mexico. Chapters also consider the nature and history of megapolicies. Compiled under the auspices of the Pacific Basin Research Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1Beyond Good Policies12The Original Megapolicy: America's Marshall Plan153Growth with Equity Megapolicies in Taiwan: Land Reform and Export-Led Growth414Strategic Notions and Great Policies: Reflections on Taiwan's Experience with Economic Transformation635Japan Jets International: Implementing Innovations in Educational Policy756Reversing China's Brain Drain: The Study-Abroad Policy, 1978-1993997Intended Consequences, Unintended Means: Thailand's Accelerated Rural Development Policy1238Agro-Industrial Development Policies in Korea, 1910-19701399From Marx to Markets: China's Economic Reforms as a Megapolicy15110Energy Conservation as a Megapolicy: The Case of China16111Japan's Official Development Assistance to China: A Bilateral Megapolicy17712Community Natural Resource Management Policies in Colombia and Mexico19913Processes of Strategic Innovation: The Dynamics of Decision Making in the Evolution of Great Policies223Index241About the Contributors245
\ BooknewsScholars of public policy and regional and international studies describe large-scale policy changes of Asian and Pacific countries. Among them are land reform and export-led growth in Taiwan, Japanese educational innovations, China's study-abroad policy in 1978-93, rural development in Thailand, and natural resource management in Columbia and Mexico. Chapters also consider the nature and history of megapolicies. Compiled under the auspices of the Pacific Basin Research Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
