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The phrase "a developmental state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a government or political system that actively promotes economic development and industrialization.
Example: "Countries like South Korea and Taiwan are often cited as examples of a developmental state due to their strategic government interventions in the economy."
Alternatives: "an interventionist state" or "a growth-oriented state".
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Only developing countries need a developmental state, after all.
They did not want a developmental state; they wanted to roll it back where they could.
If you're working with a 16-year-old artist, they're in a developmental state.
The idea of a "developmental state" has gained currency, based on the view that market forces alone cannot reduce entrenched poverty and inequality.
In four main chapters, I show that the Singapore government has developed the necessary institutions for applying a developmental state approach in urban development.
I would include here trade unions, social movements, strongly regulated labour markets, universal healthcare, public sector employment, a "developmental state" and, most of all, the programmed redistribution of wealth and power.
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Britain, Jones says, "needs to build a new developmental state, a state that once again takes responsibility for large-scale technological innovation as the basis for sustainable growth and prosperity".
What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what passes for theory is little more than policy-speak and political rhetoric.This volume fills a gap in the literature on the democratic developmental state.
A sequence-specific transcription factor capable of activating gene transcription via this cis element has yet to be identified; however, it may play a significant role in promoting and/or maintaining a tachyzoite developmental state.
The volume broadens the understanding of the Nordic model of a democratic developmental state and shows how it represents an additional, and perhaps contending understanding of the developmental state derived from the East Asian experience.
In particular, the authors scrutinize to what degree the attempts to build a democratic developmental state may be distorted by the imperatives of neoliberalism.
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