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"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk expertly demonstrates that policy makers need to consider how people learn about those risks. Offering insights into examples such as hazardous waste, radon, smoking, hurricanes and...
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Granrose and Rita V. Kong (Mei Hui Jiang) --Women in Taiwan /T.K. Peng and Tsai-Wei Wang --Impact of government policy on …. The volume includes chapters on the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore--nations that have common …
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pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Democratization in Taiwan and its impacts on the triangular relations -- pt. 3. Economic …The US policy of supporting a democratic Taiwan while simultaneously engaging China is a delicate and complex balance …
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success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as catalysts to … the growth of high-tech industries in Taiwan, along with the roles of high-tech "incubators" and government … Taiwan / Soo-Hung Terence Tsai and Chang-hui Zhou -- Macronix International Co. Ltd (MXIC) / Chin-kang Jen -- The model of …
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Written by a distinguished group of Asian social scientists, this study summarizes and synthesizes the economic impacts of the crisis on individual countries and their policy response since 2008, and in particular carefully scrutinizes the immediate and remote causes of the crisis. It not only...
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This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...
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East Asian economic development in general with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Korea. Using quantitive techniques, the … author analyses the view that industry policy interventions were a necessary factor explaining Taiwan's economic performance … industrialisation experience of Taiwan and Korea, along with: * a comprehensive discussion of strategic industry policy with an …
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Taiwan, once one of the world's leading manufacturing economies, is now transforming into a service economy, with an … book. Although Taiwan is only in the initial stage of transition from a material- or capital-based economy to a knowledge … go on to reveal the problems and difficulties that Taiwan has encountered in creating itself a new knowledge based …
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topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work … structure in the 1980s * what factors can be attributed to the rapid deterioration of Taiwan's labour market performance since … 1996 * the measures adopted by the Taiwan government in tackling the recent high unemployment rate, how effective these …
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reform and health policy in Asia-Pacific countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the US - nations …
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