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Taiwan's remarkable growth record has been the result of an outward-looking, export propelled development strategy …. Recently unfavourable political and economic events have adversely affected Taiwan’s economy. This article analyses the country …
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This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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This paper examines the causes of Taiwan's exceptional economic performance, focusing on the influence of … organizational and policy choices and how Taiwan's example differs from those of more typical less-developed countries. After briefly … success. The author demonstrates how Taiwan's unique combination of strong organic nationalism, meager natural resources and …
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This paper presents a comprehensive conceptual framework for the rationale, success factors and development outcomes of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), and analyses their performance in selected Asian countries within that framework. It draws on the tenets of the literature on 'dynamics of...
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through pairwise comparison of state building patterns between South Korea and Taiwan, on the one hand, and Iraq and …
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The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam …. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan … historical and geopolitical factors explain the greater political stability and absorptive capacity of South Korea and Taiwan. In …
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