The Role of Bureaucracy in Enforcing the Planning Sector in Korea

The marvelous economic performances of East Asian countries attract worldwide attention and many scholars attribute these performances to the State?s active intervention in the process of economic development, labeling these East Asian countries as the ?developmental state?. This work intends to contribute to this debate by looking at the importance of institutions and bureaucracy in the Korean developmental state and the lessons that Ecuador can learn from this Asian country?s experience, regarded as an outstanding model of economic development.