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The flight goose model is an explanation model from the economic geography and/or restaurant history. It serves the economic development by the example of some asiatic countries for the illustration, particularly the tiger states.

This model refers to starting (Take off) and in formation flies of the geese. This behavior is also typical for these states. Like the geese first a country, started Japan, with the economic recovery and the others followed its example.

The following temporal succession is typical:

  • first dependence of the country on imported goods
  • Import substitution by introduction of light industry
  • thus small being nominal oh question
  • Export promotion by labor intensive production
  • Import restrictions (import duties) of the customer countries; rising wages and thus competition by other low wage countries
  • Coupling of the import substitution and export promotion by principal and human-capital-intensive production
  • rising wages and competition by other developing countries; small competitive ability regarding innovations
  • Intensification of the High Tech industries up to the competitive ability with industrialized countries

After this sample countries could ascend such as Korea, Taiwan or Singapore quasi in the first flight row behind the prominent national economy of Japan, followed from countries, which nacheiferten for their part reached success and which form the third number of the formation: The Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, until the development is to pull also poor nations tight last such as Viet Nam and Kambodscha.

Critics accuse to the model the fact that it despite its descriptiveness a purely describing beginning pursued and neglects the causes and specific basic conditions of the economical development in the Zeitverlauf.

Related links

  • www.inwent.org - articles over the developer and the emergence of the model

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