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Research Article

Resilience to economic shrinking: reinterpreting the Asian economic miracle in a comparative perspective, 1964–2018

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Article: 2309207 | Received 11 Sep 2023, Accepted 18 Jan 2024, Published online: 15 Feb 2024

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