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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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industry-level productivity improvements in the Taiwan manufacturing sector. …
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-being of the aged in Taiwan and eight other countries - the United States, Japan, Australia, Poland, Finland, Germany, Hungary … relative economic status of the aged in each country. This issue is explored more thoroughly in Taiwan, where the (admittedly …
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, Russia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States) for three different years. Relative performance of each distribution …
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This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the …
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Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...
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, Singapore and Taiwan. Economically, the analysis is based on notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle …
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