production networks in Asia, with particular reference to the role of China. I conclude with a brief discussion of new … China Circle, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1997) …

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 …

This paper studies the mechanisms underlying the apparent stability of the income distribution in Taiwan. An original … decomposition methodology based on micro-simulation techniques is proposed. Applied to the distribution of income in Taiwan since … behavior ; and c) the socio-demographic structure of the population. The stability of the distribution in Taiwan appears as the …

This brief gendered history of Taiwan’s and Korea’s labor markets indicates a recent reversal in the persistent gender … gender wage equality, recent signs of downward harmonization of wages in Taiwan’s largest sectors, and ongoing employment …

between Taiwan and Belize. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is the result of ethnographic fieldwork research combined … with a literature study. Findings – The development of the newly industrialized country Taiwan can be characterized by a … drastic transformation from an impoverished agrarian society towards an affluent industrial economy. Now, Taiwan is aiming to …

Taiwan has been referred to by the World Bank as one of the East Asia's “economic miracles”. Many quantitative models … on Taiwan's economic growth have been conducted by neo-classical mainstream economists. However, none of them … investigates in detail the thinking of those policy-makers who work behind the economic success of Taiwan. Li Kuo-Ting is generally …

research project by the Institute of Developing Economies that examined the development mechanisms in Korea and Taiwan. Our …-led industrialization, have been essentially different: a government-led mechanism in Korea as opposed to a market-led mechanism in Taiwan …