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Throughout its history, Korea has based its economic policies on ideas of how to best promote exports and control foreign exchange reserve levels. Even during periods of liberalization, more attention was given to promoting exports than liberalizing imports.
The review of Korean trade and industrial policies showed how the trade policy, which began by effectively utilizing international competition, evolved into an industrial policy which encouraged close cooperation between the government and the private sector. Such close ties led to crony-capitalism which is the underlying root of the current economic crisis. Thus, activist industrial policy must no longer be a part of government's policy options. The theoretical justifications are no longer as clear in the 1990s as in the 1960s, and the potential for misuse and the negative effect on the rest of the economy is too high to be tolerated. (The rest omitted)
Korea's trade and industrial policies : 1948-1998-why the era of active policy is over
- Korea's trade and industrial policies
- Sohn, Chan-Hyun; Yang, JunSok; Yim, Hyo-Sung
- Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
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Korea's trade and industrial policies
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| Sub Title | 1948-1998-why the era of active policy is over |
| Material Type | Reports |
| Author(English) |
Sohn, Chan-Hyun; Yang, JunSok; Yim, Hyo-Sung |
| Publisher |
Seoul : Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| Date | 1998-09 |
| Series Title; No | KIEP Working Paper / 98-05 |
| ISBN | 89-322-4029-9 |
| Pages | 83 |
| Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
| Language | English |
| File Type | Link |
| Subject | Economy < Trade Industry and Technology < General |
| Holding | Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| License |  |
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