Development and crisis in East-Asia. A social balance with lights and shades.

The paper offers a critical outline of the social and economical development pattern of Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) in East-Asia. Of such a pattern are here presented the trade off between the market and the State role in the economic development along with the cultural values of human resources, functional to it. Then it offers some critical comments on NICs' delays about social and cultural promotion of human rights, as for instance the acquiescence towards the lack of democracy or the plague of child labour. In the end the paper questions about the future perspectives of Asian NTCs and their trade relations, charged of social dumping, with Western countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]