ISSUES AND PROSPECTS
Kwan S. Kim
Working Paper #210—May 1994
Kwan S. Kim is Professor of Economics and Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute at the
University of Notre Dame. He is a development economist, occasionally serving as an economic
consultant for governments of developing countries and for international agencies. His career
includes four years as a Rockefeller Foundation scholar in East Africa, two years as a senior
economist with the United States Agency for International Development, recently a year as a
visiting professor at Hitotsubashi Institute of Economic Research in Tokyo, and short stints as an
economic researcher at such institutions as the Hudson Institute, UNIDO, and the Nacional
Financiera in Mexico. He has published extensively in over fifty professional journals in the areas
of development studies, international economics, and quantitative analysis. His published books
include Papers on the Political Economy of Tanzania (Heinemann), Debt and Development in
Latin America (Notre Dame), Industrial Policy and Development in South Korea (Nacional
Financiera, Mexico), Development Strategies for the Future of Mexico (ITESO, Mexico), Korean
Agricultural Research: The Integration of Research and Extension (USAID), The State, Markets
and Development (Edward Elgar, forthcoming), The Acquisition, Adaption and Development of
Technologies: Japan’s Experience (Macmillan, forthcoming), and Trade and Industrialization (The
Netherlands Institute for International Management).
An earlier version of this paper was presented at an American Economic Association session
during the American Social Science Association (ASSA) annual meetings in Boston, January
1 994. The author acknowledges helpful comments from Professors Robert Lucas and Amitava
Dutt.