Industrialization and the State: The Changing Role of the Taiwan Government in the Economy, 1945-1985

by Dwight H. Perkins and Chen-Kuo Hsu

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 policy-makers varied their approach to development as circumstances changed. Export promotion of labour-intensive industries, which predominated in the 1960s, was supplemented by efforts to promote import-substituting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002539
• ISBN13: 9780674002531
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"