Type "A" cases, as the countries in Southeast Asia are frequently designated, are usually analyzed in this type of work, as if their recent momentum were exclusively due to the adoption of technology promotion policies, also known as "developmentalist" policies, but these discussions avoid touching on what happened before these measures were adopted, which reduces these analyses to an evaluation of the effects of development, rather than the causes.
Comúnmente, se analizan casos como el de países del sureste asiático, a los que denomina países tardíos tipo "A", como si su dinamismo reciente se debiera exclusivamente a la adopción de políticas de fomento tecnológico, o bien "desarrollistas"; pero escapa a la discusión sobre qué es lo que antecede a la adopción de tales medidas, lo que disuelve el problema de fondo sobre el desarrollo en los efectos más que en las causas.