Foreword　Yoshikazu Sakamoto

1. The Newly Industrializing Country – not a recent phenomenon

2. Periods of crisis in the world economy from the perspective of development theory

3. The threat of peripheralization and the possible consequences

4. Countermeasures against the challenge from more advanced countries

　4.1 Transfer of technology and indigenous innovation

　4.2 Integration versus delinking

　4.3 Broad competition or searching for niches

　4.4 Liberalization and state intervention

5. The transition from an export economy to national economy

　5.1 Linkages and nichetechnologies

　5.2 Economic preconditions for self-centered development

6. Social preconditions for self-centered development

　6.1 Homogeneity and income distribution

　6.2 Competence and social mobility

7. Political preconditions for self-centered development

　7.1 Nationbuilding and sovereignty

　7.2 Participation and conflict resolution

8. The lessons of history

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