Political Economy of Taiwan’s Development into the 21st Century

Edited by the late Gustav Ranis formerly Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and Director, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, US, the late Sheng-Cheng Hu, formerly Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Professor of Economics (Joint Appointment), National Taiwan University, Taiwan, and Yun-Peng Chu, Professor of Economics and Director, Research Center for Taiwan Economic Development, National Central University, Taiwan

• Contents: Preface Part I: Overview 1. Reflections on the Economics and Political Economy of Development at the Turn of the Century Part II: Sources of Development 2. How Was Taiwan’s Economy Opened Up? The Foreign Factor in Appraisal 3. Growth and Catch-up in a Cross-section of Local Manufacturing Industries 4. Second-stage Import Substitution: The Taiwan Experience 5. Linkage and Uneven Growth: A Study of Taiwan’s Manmade Fiber Industry Part III: Income Distribution and Development 6. Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth in Taiwan 7. Income Inequality in Taiwan 1976-95: Changing Family Composition, Aging and Female Labor-force Participation 8. Economic and Demographic Aspects of Taiwan’s Rising Family Income Inequality 9. Estimating the Intergenerational Income Mobility Matrix Using the Pseudo Panel Data 10. Implications of Technology and Education for Wage Dispersion: Evidence from Taiwan Part IV: Institutions and Development 11. The Institutional Foundation of Taiwan’s Industrialization: Exploring the State-Society Nexus 12. The Devolution of Power, Democracy and Economic Development in the Republic of China on Taiwan: The Taiwan Provincial Assembly, 1949-65 Index

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