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A comparative research which describes and analyses the contribution of agriculture to the economies of East Asia. before, little recognition has been paid to the rural area which really underpins business and advertisement improvement. lately, this zone has develop into the point of interest of more and more sour financial disputes, in particular over safeguard and using import price lists.
A comparative framework is used, making use of case stories from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea to spotlight either the typical features of agriculture's position in East Asian improvement, and contours specific to the political economic climate of agriculture in every one kingdom.
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Teranishi 1997:286-7). Second, the East Asian countries stand out as economies whose development has hinged crucially on relations with the outside world. All are resource-poor and heavily dependent on imported raw materials. For Taiwan and Korea, with their relatively small home markets, exports have represented a vital source of demand, with at times as much as half of Taiwan’s output being sold abroad. ForJapan, exports have generally generated a much smaller proportion of GNP but nonetheless constitute a highly important market for significant sections ofJapanese industry.
This study takes the story of East Asian agriculture up to this point and traces the changing balance of internal and external forces that represented the background to the eventual Uruguay Round agreements on agricultural trade.
Japan was, of course, well on the road to industrialisation before the outbreak of the Pacific War, but still in the late 1930s around half its labour force was employed in agriculture. Although its heavy industrial firms had mastered the basics of the technology on which the strength of the West was seen to lie, and its exports of products such as textiles had carved large holes in the Asian markets of its Western competitors, nonetheless much of its industry, particularly in areas such as consumer-goods production, remained small-scale, labour-intensive or ‘traditional’ in its technology and often closely linked to the rural sector.