The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development

Joel D. Aberdach

I: Sources of Economic Growth; A: Technology, Growth, and International Trade; 1: Industrial Policy, Productivity Growth, and Structural Change in the Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of Taiwan and South Korea; 2: Reconsidering Export-Led Growth: Evidence from Firm Performance, Taiwan, 1983–1987; 3: The Transition to Export-Led Growth in Taiwan; 4: Taiwan's Persistent Trade Surpluses: The Role of Underdeveloped Financial Markets; 5: Foreign Trade and Economic Growth in Taiwan; B: Government Policy and the Development of Economic Institutions and Endowments; 6: The State and the Development of the Automobile Industry in South Korea and Taiwan; 7: State Policy and the Development of Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry; 8: Taiwan's Financial System and the Allocation of Investment Funds; 9: Monetary Policy in Taiwan: Third Quarter 1961 to Fourth Quarter 1988; 10: Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Taiwan: A Digression on the Effects of Taxation on Income Distribution; 11: Income Levels and Occupations of Public vs. Private University Graduates and the Efficiency of Government Investment in Higher Education; II: Social and Political Aspects of Economic Development; 12: Ideological Reflections and the Inception of Economic Development in Taiwan; 13: Women, Export-Oriented Growth, and the State: The Case of Taiwan; 14: Attitudinal Changes of Farmers in Taiwan; Afterword