Taiwan's Economic Development Research Articles

Briefer Mention

Book reviews in this article:Large Regional Differences Development Alternatives in Pakistan: A Multisectoraland Regional Analysis of Planning Problems by Arthur MacEwan.Mexico's Development Efforts Regional Economic Development: The River Basin Approach in Mexico by David Barkin and Timothy King.Mathematical Exercise Studies in Development Planning, edited by Hollis B. Chenery.What Went Wrong? Iran: Economic Development under Dualistic Conditions by Jahangir Amuzegar and M. Ali Fekrat.Changing the Farmer's Ways Behavioral Change in Agriculture: Concepts and Strategies for Influencing Transition, edited by J. Paul Leagans and Charles P. Loomis.A Laboratory for Development Policy Intersectorul Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895–1960 by Teng‐hui Lee.Shifting Scenes Democracy in Crisis: New Challenges to Constitutional Democracy in the Atlantic Area, edited by E. A. Goerner.Viewing the U.S. from Abroad America's Empire by Claude Julien (translated from the French by Renaud Bruce).Black‐White Economic Relationships The Economics of Black America, edited by Harold G. Vatter and Thomas Palm.A Cool Look at a Hot Issue The Political Economy of Urban Schools by Martin T. Katzman.Destruction of a Thesis The Culture of Poverty: A Critique, edited by Eleanor Burke Leacock.Time for a Truce Earthkeeping: The War with Nature and a Proposal for Peace by Gordon Harrison.Government Spending Public Expenditure by Jesse Burkhead and Jerry Miner.Transport Troubles Bureaucrats in Collision: Case Studies in Area Transportation Planning by Melvin R. Levin and Norman A. Abend.

Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1960.

Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1960.

Agricultural Transformation Under Colonialism: The Case of Taiwan

Much interest andthe economic progress made in Taiwan since the end of World attention have been recently focused onWar II. A major factor in Taiwan's postwar economic development is that the island already possessed a progressive and productive agricultural sector when it was returned to Chinese rule in 1945. The transformation of Taiwan's agriculture was the major accomplishment of the Japanese Colonial Administration. When Japan acquired Taiwan in 1895, its agriculture was stagnant and its peasants were engaged almost exclusively in subsistence farming. To enable Taiwan to make a contribution to Japan's efforts at industrialization, the Colonial Government was given the task of rationalizing and modernizing Taiwan's agriculture. Taiwan was to be integrated with the Japanese economy to provide a food surplus to help maintain the Japanese laborers diverted from agricultural to industrial activities. Foreign exchange that Japan would otherwise have spent on food imports would be used to finance more strategic imports. More explicitly, the Japanese had two objectives: to increase Taiwan's agricultural output and to divert the increase away from agriculture in Taiwan without committing an equivalent transfer of production value to agriculture in Taiwan.

STRATEGIC ELEMENTS IN THE RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH OF TAIWAN

The termination of the Japanese colonial tie, the new supply of American aid, and the peculiar domestic conditions, etc., acted, through multiple processes, as impeding as well as accelerating factors for the post‐war economic development of Taiwan. By tracing these processes, the author tries to suggest that there may be such general factors as will effectively be applicable to the other underdeveloped countries on the one hand, and such historical, social, and international factors which may preclude their ready applicability on the other.

The Factor Contribution of Agriculture to Economic Development: A Study of Taiwan

Economists are far from unanimous with regard to the role of the agricultural sector in early stages of economic development, but most agree that the agricultural sector can make certain contributions to the process of development. So far, little effort has been devoted to empirical studies in this area. An analysis of the Taiwan experience is pertinent because considerable success has been achieved, both in agricultural and in general development in the post-war period, despite limited resources, unstable prices of agricultural exports and a high ratio of population increase (3.6% per year). A UN study indicates that the average annual growth rates of GNP and national income were 6.9% and 6.1 % respectively during the period 1954-60. In the same period the per capita growth rate of national income was 2.7 %. Among Asian countries, only Japan exceeded these rates of economic growth.1 The main objective of this paper is to examine one aspect of agriculture's contribution-the contribution-to Taiwan's economic development in the post-war period. A factor is made if agriculture transfers resources to other sectors, and these resources are productive factors.2 There has been a tendency for countries in the process of development to underestimate the potential contribution made by their own agricultural sector. In considering the contribution of agriculture, Simon Kuznets points out an element of ambiguity: Since any sector is part of an interdependent system represented by the country's economy, what a sector does is not fully attributable or credited to it but is contingent upon what happens in the other sector, and perhaps also outside the economy.

Land-Use Improvement: A Key to the Economic Development of Taiwan

Land-Use Improvement: A Key to the Economic Development of Taiwan