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GDP per capita for the Four "Asian Tigers" (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea) between 1960 and 2014 Four Tigers GDP per capita.svg
GDP per capita for the Four "Asian Tigers" (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea) between 1960 and 2014

A tiger economy is the economy of a country which undergoes rapid economic growth, usually accompanied by an increase in the standard of living. [1] The term was originally used for the Four Asian Tigers (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) as tigers are important in Asian symbolism, which also inspired the Tiger Cub Economies (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines). The Asian Tigers also inspired other economies later on; the Anatolian Tigers (certain cities in Turkey) in the 1980s, the Gulf Tiger (Dubai) in the 1990s, the Celtic Tiger (Republic of Ireland) in 1995–2000, the Baltic tigers (Baltic states) in 2000–2007, and the Tatra Tiger (Slovakia) in 2002–2007. [2]

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History

In the 1960s, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Myanmar were considered as the "Tiger of Asia" Economies as all three countries were experiencing high growth. [3] Internal issues however led to the economies of all three countries to falter. [3] Israel's rapid economic growth in the 1990s, and again in the 2000s and 2010s following a brief recession, earned it a reputation as a tiger economy, and one newspaper dubbed it the "Hebrew tiger." [4] [5] Bangladesh has been described as an emerging "Asian tiger" in recent years due to its high economic growth and industrialization which bear many similarities to the way the Four Asian Tigers industrialized between the 1960s and 1990s. [6] [7]

Another tiger economy is that of Armenia. Because of the remarkable, often two-digit economic growth that Armenia showed until the 2007–08 financial crisis, it emerged as the Caucasian Tiger. During this period, sustained economic growth allowed for economic stability, moderate fiscal deficits and external debt, as well as declining poverty rates. [8]

There is a term European Tiger which describes countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. [9] [10] [11] [12]

Similar economies

The Pacific Pumas has been used to describe fast-growing & emerging economies in Latin America such as Mexico, Chile, Peru & Colombia.

The term lion economy or African Lions is used as an analogy to describe emerging economies in Africa. [13] Countries considered to be "African Lions" are South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Botswana, Egypt, Mauritius, and Tunisia. [14]

The term "wolf economy" is used to describe Mongolia's rapidly growing economy. [15]

The Caucasian Tiger

The establishment of macroeconomic stability and the steadfast pursuit of reforms aimed at constructing a market economy that was integrated with the rest of the world are to be attributed for Armenia's emergence as the Caucasian Tiger. [16] During the five years preceding 2007, the Armenian economy has grown by double-digit rates annually on average—similar to the East Asian tiger economies—and maintained high growth rates even before. Armenia quickly recovered from the output shock experienced by transition economies. Dating from 1994, its upturn in output reaches to the experience of the Baltic States and Central Europe and precedes by four to five years the recovery in the rest of the former Soviet Union (FSU). Armenia's growth was caused by productivity gains in the private sector as macroeconomic stability took hold; Armenia rapidly expanded the role of private markets, and it adopted necessary institutional measures to ensure free price formation, private ownership of assets (including land), and industrial restructuring, liberal trade in goods services and investment. Moreover, the defeat of inflation and predictability in financial policies' stance was caused by adopting responsible fiscal and monetary policies in the late 1990s. Thus, the foundations of impressive growth performance were laid because first-generation structural and institutional reforms were achieved. [17] In 2022, similar double-digit economic growth has been observed; in particular, a 14% GDP growth has been estimated as a result of such factors as the influx of foreigners (mainly Russians) due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. [18]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Celtic Tiger</span> Irish economy between 1995 and 2007

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Four Asian Tigers</span> Economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">BRIC</span> Term for a group of four emerging national economies

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baltic Tiger</span> Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during their periods of economic boom

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Post-Soviet states</span> Countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tatra Tiger</span>

"Tatra Tiger" is a nickname that refers to the economy of Slovakia in period 2002 – 2007, following the ascendance of a right-leaning coalition in September 2002 which engaged in a program of liberal economic reforms. The name "Tatra Tiger" derives from the local Tatra mountain range.

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In the context of the Turkish economy, Anatolian Tigers are a number of cities in Turkey which have displayed impressive growth records since the 1980s, as well as a defined breed of entrepreneurs rising in prominence and who can often be traced back to the cities in question and who generally rose from the status of small and medium enterprises.

The Gulf Tiger or Arab Gulf Tiger is a nickname used to describe the period of rapid economic growth in the city of Dubai. The boom that Dubai has been experiencing since the 1990s is still going on, transforming the city from a desert village to a world class economic hub.

The East Asian model, pioneered by Japan, is a plan for economic growth whereby the government invests in certain sectors of the economy in order to stimulate the growth of specific industries in the private sector. It generally refers to the model of development pursued in East Asian economies such as Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has also been used by some to describe the contemporary economic system in Mainland China after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms during the late 1970s and the current economic system of Vietnam after its Đổi Mới policy was implemented in 1986. Generally, as a country becomes more developed, the most common employment industry transitions from agriculture to manufacturing, and then to services.

The 1990s economic boom in the United States was a major economic expansion that lasted between 1993 and 2001, coinciding with the economic policies of the Clinton administration. It began following the early 1990s recession during the presidency of George H.W. Bush and ended following the infamous dot-com crash in 2000. Until July 2019, it was the longest recorded economic expansion in the history of the United States.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">CIVETS</span> Group of six emerging-market countries

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Pacific Pumas</span>

The Pacific Pumas are a political and economic grouping of countries along Latin America’s Pacific coast that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The term references the four larger Pacific Latin American emerging markets that share common trends of positive growth, stable macroeconomic foundations, improved governance and an openness to global integration.

References

  1. A definition of Tiger Economy is provided by the Macmillan Online Dictionary, available here
  2. See this essay by Michal Hvorecký for an example of the term applied to Slovakia - The End of the Economic Miracle Archived 17 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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  12. https://aecom.com/cornerstone-issue-01/romania-new-european-tiger/
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  16. The Caucasian Tiger
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