This paper looks at several developments that have taken place in domestic politics on Taiwan since the election of … Chen Shui-bian as president of the Republic of China on Taiwan in 1998. After discussing the political successes and …. Some of the problems encountered by the administration are traced to changes in the political system of Taiwan that took …

output changes at an early stage. We illustrate the method with an evaluation of the impact of the 2008-2009 crisis in …

With the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, European governments extensively intervened to avert a severe … than right-wing governments. As a crisis response, one could assume that European governments, especially social … how European governments mitigated the fiscal stress from the crisis. The findings show that fiscal pressures …

of the five countries to the 2008 crisis was countercyclical. On the fiscal side, countries had a larger fiscal space in … indicators and a reduction in financing needs in the years before the crisis. On the monetary side, the capacity to implement … countercyclical responses in future crisis episodes, the fiscal authorities should reverse expansionary measures during good times nd …

recent crisis using some stylised facts on changing output and employment struc-tures at detailed sectoral level. Focusing … differentiated impact of the recent crisis on struc-tural shifts in their economy. We start with stylised facts related to output and … (or divergence) of the New EU Member States (NMS) compared to the more advanced 'old' EU countries (OMS) during the crisis …

We analyse the background of the Greek debt crisis and evaluate the three Greek financial assistance programme. The … crisis and the first programme’s (2010-11) failure were mainly the result of misguided internal policies. The second …

speculation that had caused the crisis bringing the bank down. Creation of the syndicate and other actions were consistent with …