—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … Kong and Taiwan), Korea and Singapore are complemented with comparisons to trends in national policy and private sector … practice in Japan and the United States. Preliminary findings indicate that while progress has been made towards establishing …

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong … privately financed welfare programmes; (ii) Korea and Taiwan's public welfare expenditures will grow significantly in the coming … marginal occupational groups; (iii) Japan's ageing problem is compounded by the weakening of the family as a provider of …

Using a strategy of export-led growth and an activist industrial policy, Japan, the Asian Tigers and more recently … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …

Pacific Rim populations: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the state of Victoria in Australia. On a cultural spectrum …, we consider Hong Kong and Taiwan to lie between the more individualistic Australian culture and the more collectivistic …

vulnerable, had it not been for the presence of the US 7th fleet in the Taiwan Straits. Ferretti shows that the leading ideas of … Yoshida Shigeru on relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China did not change after the failure of the Dulles … the need for a Pacific Pact. When it became clear from discussions with Dulles early in 1951 that the treaty with Japan …