The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development

These essays are a product of a co-operative research project between American and Taiwanese social scientists. Of particular interest is the chapter discussing a comparative study of industrial policy, productivity growth and structural change in manufacturing.

List of contents

I: Sources of Economic Growth; A: Technology, Growth, and International Trade; 1: Industrial Policy, Productivity Growth, and Structural Change in the Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of Taiwan and South Korea; 2: Reconsidering Export-Led Growth: Evidence from Firm Performance, Taiwan, 1983–1987; 3: The Transition to Export-Led Growth in Taiwan; 4: Taiwan's Persistent Trade Surpluses: The Role of Underdeveloped Financial Markets; 5: Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Taiwan; B: Government Policy and the Development of Economic Institutions and Endowments; 6: The State and the Development of the Automobile Industry in South Korea and Taiwan; 7: State Policy and the Development of Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry; 8: Taiwan's Financial System and the Allocation of Investment Funds; 9: Monetary Policy in Taiwan: Third Quarter 1961 to Fourth Quarter 1988; 10: Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Taiwan: A Digression on the Effects of Taxation on Income Distribution; 11: Income Levels and Occupations of Public vs. Private University Graduates and the Efficiency of Government Investment in Higher Education; II: Social and Political Aspects of Economic Development; 12: Ideological Reflections and the Inception of Economic Development in Taiwan; 13: Women, Export-Oriented Growth, and the State: The Case of Taiwan; 14: Attitudinal Changes of Farmers in Taiwan; Afterword

About the author

Joel D. Aberdach

Product details

• Authors: Joel D. Aberdach, Aberdach Joel D.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.1994
• EAN: 9781563243257
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-325-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Taiwan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Development economics & emerging economies, Microeconomics, Development economics and emerging economies, Central government policies, Public finance and taxation