Saturday, July 7, 2007

The Asian Four Little Tigers

The Asian Four Little Tigers

What is “The Asian Four Little tigers”? They’re not real tigers. But they’re four regions. Their names are: South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The Four Asian Tigers pursued an export-driven model of economic development; these countries and territories focused on developing goods for export to highly-industrialized nations. The Four Asian Tigers had all chosen education as a means of improving productivity; these nations focused on improving the education system at all levels; heavy emphasis was placed on ensuring that all children attended elementary education and have at least a complete high school education. Money was also spent on improving the colleges and ies they have. Since the Four Asian Tigers were extramly poor during the 1960s, these nations had an resource of cheap labor. Coupled with educational reform, they were able to change this combination into a cheap, yet productive workforce. There are also laws to promote property rights and to ensure that all workers would not become disgruntled. Also, policies of agricultural subsidies and tariffs on agricultural products were implemented as well. The Asia Four Little Tigers is concidered as the best regions after Japan. And the contry just behind the Four Little Tigers on the line is currenctly China.

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