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Industrialization and the State: The Changing Role of Government in Taiwan's Economy, 1945-1998
Industrialization and the State The Changing Role of Government in Taiwan's Economy 19451998 Author:Chen Kuo Hsu, 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 policymakers varied their approach to development as circumstances changed. Export promotion of labor-intensive... more » 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.« less