The Foreign Factor: The Multinational Corporation's Contribution to the Economic Modernization of the Republic of China

by Chi Schive, Richard F. Staar

Overview

Over the past three decades the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan has achieved a degree of economic development that has attracted worldwide attention. Its economy is growing at a pace that will qualify the ROC as a developed country by the turn of the century; in Asia it will be second only to Japan in per capita income. How has the economy been able to expand as rapidly as it has? What governmental policies enable it to sustain an annual growth rate that is at the forefront of the newly industrializing countries? These centrally important questions guide Schive's study of the economic modernization of Taiwan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817988920
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	06/01/1990
Series:	HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION Series
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

Schive (economics, National Taiwan U.) and the Hoover Institution must be the last to insist that the nation of China is represented by a little island in the Pacific that the rest of us (including the US government) call Taiwan. In any event, this is an interesting (if unduly positive) study of the contributions to Taiwan's economy made by direct foreign investment, showing that the associated technological change has greatly aided the island-nation's economic growth. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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