The time needed for economic development could therefore be greatly shortened through the late-comer advantage of imitation. The Asian countries could achieve within a period of only 50 years what it had taken the Western countries some 100-150 years to do. This point was well explained by Alexander Gerschenkron in his development theory of relative backwardness.
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