Stephan Haggard's Research Cited in The Economist
Two steps back
03/17/2012
Banyan,
The Economist
The vast majority of North Koreans will be disappointed in one birthday present they were promised this year. To mark the 100th anniversary next month of the birth of their late but eternal president, Kim Il Sung, they were to be granted prosperity, or at least were assured their country would have attained it by then. Millions are enduring grinding poverty and gnawing hunger instead. They will, however, it was announced on March 16th, be given another gift: the launch of a “working”, North-Korean made, satellite, the Kwangmyongsong-3. For those outside the country hoping that the new regime led by Mr Kim’s grandson, Kim Jong Un, might be more trustworthy than its predecessors, the planned launch is less a gift, more a kick in the teeth.
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Stephan Haggard is the director of the Korea-Pacific Program at IR/PS, where he specializes in the Korean economy. In 2011 Haggard published Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea with co-author Marcus Noland, with whom he had previously authored Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform. Dr. Haggard writes the "North Korea: Witness to Transformation" blog at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
