Economic miracle
Appearance
The terms "economic miracle," "tiger economy" or simply "miracle" have come to refer to great periods of change, particularly periods of dramatic economic growth, in the recent histories of a number of countries:
Post-World War II
- Record years in Sweden, from World War II to early 1970s
- Wirtschaftswunder - Post-World War II economic growth in Austria and West Germany
- Trente Glorieuses - Post World War II economic growth in France (c. 1945-1975)
- Greek economic miracle (c. 1950s-1970s)
- Japanese post-war economic miracle (c. 1950-1975)
- Il Boom (the Italian economic miracle, 1955-1972)
Later
- Baltic Tiger (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, c. 2000-present)
- Brazilian miracle (1968-1973)
- Celtic Tiger (Ireland, c. 1990s-2001, 2003-2006)
- Four Asian Tigers (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, c. 1960s-1990s)
- Miracle on the Han River (South Korea, c. 1950-1997)
- Taiwan Miracle
- Massachusetts Miracle (1980s)
- "Miracle of Chile" (c. 1970's-present)
- Spanish miracle (1959-1973)