Theoretical Analysis Of Advantages And Economic Catch-up Strategy. Issued

The world economic history is about unbalanced development and the latecomers catching up with and surpassing the first comers. The academic gist of "catching up with and surpassing" is the theory of "advantage of backwardness". The American economic historian Alexander Gerchenkron did theoretic research on the topic at an earlier time, but his research was developed on the extended line of economic development history of Great Britain and developed areas of Europe continent, the research objects were limited only to the European countries. With economic development and histrionic fluxing, especially after World War Two, some developing countries rapidly grew up and realized industrialization. Gerchenkron's theory of "advantage of backwardness" can't explain completely the phenomena, being desiderated to be developed and completed. In this discourse, the research on the theories of "advantage of backwardness" and "catching up with and surpassing" focuses on the history of the half century after World War Two, with the developed countries as comparison, aiming to provide the theoretic support for the developing countries and areas, especially China to catch up the developed countries. In the case analysis, the dissertation takes Japan and "Asia four litter dragons" as emphases, at the same time, involving developing countries and areas such as former Soviet Russia, East Europe, Latin America, East Alliance, Middle East, Africa and so on. In order to ensure the integrality of the theoretic framework, the author massages the facts and cases into the theoretic analyzing instead of exploring the theories firstly, then analyzing cases, making theory and case analyzing organized altogether in an order of logic in accord with history .The development economics after World War Two was focused on the problem of poverty, confined by the era, discussed little on the problem that how developing countries catch up with and surpass the developed countries. With the rapid development of globalization, it provides uncommon chance for developing countries to catch up. Since then, the research on economic catching up with and surpassing have began to increase. The domestic and international academic researches on how one or several special developing countries to catch up are too numerous to be mentioned one by one. However, the exact connotation of "advantage of backwardness", which is the theoretic gist of economic catching up with and surpassing, seems never to be explained clearly; and the research of the general law of catching up with and surpassing is very few. To realize to catch up with and surpass first comers for latecomers, the all-important condition is to overcome disadvantages and to break the chain to traditional society. As early as 1950's, the American scholar Rostow put forward the theory of "flying-off'. The core content is that a country should depend on inner accumulation of resource and self-generating power to realize economic flying-off. However, in the unbalanced world system of economic development, it is very difficult to realize economic flying-off for the latecomers if only depends on self accumulating. A conclusion is drawn from parsing the concept of "advantage of backwardness" and probing into the law of economic catching up with and surpassing that the developing countries and areas should depend on not only self inner accumulation but also external power; while it would be hazard to utilize external power. Only turn external power into inner power, could developing countries and areas realize rapid economic flying-off and eliminate risk.The first three chapters of the discourse are about theoretic analysis of "advantage of backwardness". In four chapters from 4 to 7, are about theoretic analysis and demonstration on the law of economic catching up with and surpassing. The research of the law demonstrates the strategic framework, being the application of theory of advantage of backwardness.The first chapter puts stress on theoretical analysis during tracing to the source. Because the theo...