Industrialization and the state : the changing role of the Taiwan government in the economy, 1945-1998 / [edited by] Li-min Hsueh, Chen-kuo Hsu, and Dwight H. Perkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xue, Limin.

Hsu, Chen-kuo.

Perkins, Dwight H. (Dwight Heald), 1934-

Series:

Harvard studies in international development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--Taiwan.

Industrial policy.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard Institute for International Development [at] Harvard University and Chung-hua Institution for Economic Research : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2001]

Summary:

Taiwan's export-led industrial development is often presented as a model of how state intervention promotes growth. Others see the same experience as a model of a private enterprise market at work. This study demonstrates that Taiwan policymakers varied their approach to development as circumstances changed. Export promotion of labor-intensive industries, which predominated in the 1960s, was supplemented by efforts to promote import-substituting heavy industries in the 1970s. In the early 1980s there was a fundamental change in the economic environment as Taiwan's government reduced its active intervention in the economy and created a foundation for development based on information and other high-technology products. Taiwan's economy continued to prosper in the 1990s because policies and systems changed along with conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0674002539

OCLC:

44110417