Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve Rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia\'s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm.
Looney shows that different types of development outcomes--improvements in agricultural production, Rural living standards, and the village environment--were realized t.
Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s-1970s), South Korea (1950s-1970s), and China (1980s-2000s), Kristen E.
Mobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve Rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia\'s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm