4 The Socioeconomic Origins of South Korea’s Developmental State and Its Agro-Industrial Path to Development
4.1 Introduction
In this chapter I will study the case of South Korea (SK) as the successful case of a developmental state in comparison to the less successful cases of Brazil and India, whose political elites have not been able to build developmental states that have sufficient autonomy from powerful elite interests, particularly in their initial stages of state formation and state-building by large landlords to help guide their countries towards being competitive industrially with high living standards, measured by social indicators like life expectancy, literacy, clean water, electricity, paved roads, ...
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