01891cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF009243 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451965384 1934-7456 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ostry, Jonathan. Selective Government Interventions and Economic Growth : A Survey of the Asian Experience and its Applicability to New Zealand / Jonathan Ostry. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Policy Discussion Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has been engaged in a broad-ranging economic reform program--involving liberalization of key sectors of the economy, reduction in trade protection, and trimming of the public sector--in order to restructure its economy and stimulate growth. With growth performance having been rather lackluster in recent years, questions have been raised as to whether a more interventionist approach--such as that followed by some Asian countries--might be warranted in order to place the economy on a higher growth path. A review of the empirical literature dealing with the experience of the dynamic Asian economies does not suggest that their success can be attributed to any significant degree to selective government interventions. Mode of access: Internet IMF Policy Discussion Papers; Policy Discussion Paper ; No. 1993/017 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/003/1993/017/003.1993.issue-017-en.xml IMF e-Library