2017 Volume 57 Issue 2 Pages 77-91
The economic development in East Asia is characterized by the extremely open development that we call ‘Asian global model’. In Asian countries, where they are not strong in the fundamental conditions of industrial development, which are resource, market, capital or technique, and infrastructure. The special economic zone for foreign firms, the market for export, political introduction of foreign capital, and construction of infrastructure with international help, allow their rapid development. Countries in different development stages co-exist in current East Asia. The behaviors of the global food companies are different depending on their stage of the development. In developing countries with more than 5,000 dollars of GDP/person, global food companies increased production for domestic markets of urban area, with capital-intensive techniques.
