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Over the last few decades, the East Asian economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have undergone some of the fastest growth rates ever experienced and transformed their poor, agrarian economies into comparatively well-off, industrialised economies. This successful economic growth has been accompanied by a significant growth in skill formation. In this book, the authors seek to provide a detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship of education and training to the economic growth process. The focus is on how education and training systems have assisted the transition from labour intensive to capital intensive forms of production and the pivotal role of central government in this process. Policy making during this skill formation process has been characterised by the ability to match education and training outcomes to economic requirements at any point in the process and by the anticipation of future skill needs. The authors also discuss the implications of the processes of economic liberalisation and democratisation for this model of skill formation. The chapters are entitled: Introduction and overview; The developmental state and the education and training system; Singapore; South Korea; Taiwan; Hong Kong; Is there a 'Four Tigers' model of skill formation?; On the diffusion of the model.