The Business Times

Sonal Varma

Post-war Japan was the lead goose, which started out by producing low-value products such as garments. Then, as its costs rose, it relocated production in the 1960s to the next flock of geese, the newly industrialising economies of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
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