Institutions for collective action are vital to accomplishing a variety of difficult developmental tasks, including irrigation management. For decades experts have argued collective action institutions for farmer participation, called water user organizations, are essential for …
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Taiwan has been undergoing a dramatic industrialization transition in the last two decades: from a light-industry based economy to a more advanced industrial stage of economic development. In the 1980s seeking to expand export market, the Taiwan government decided to purse new p…
This thesis is a collection of three essays on industrial productivity growth in Asia. The first two essays analyze an unbalanced panel data set on 606 Chinese machinery factories in Guangdong province, from 1980 to 1991. We find rapid although volatile TFP growth in these facto…
In the past two decades, neuroscientists' reports on human brain function and development have focused attention on early childhood education. However, the full integration of emergent neuroscience findings with education practices has not occurred. For example, brain research s…
This study examines ethnic politics as an explanation for the contrast in democratic performance of Taiwan and Malaysia, two ethnically bipolar states, from the 1950s to the early 1990s. During this period, the level of democracy increased in Taiwan but decreased in Malaysia. Gi…
The evidence presented in this thesis supports the view that men and women participate in the labour force in qualitatively distinct ways and that, as a result, policies to increase female employment in the formal economy have an impact on economic development that is quite diff…
The purpose of this Focus Paper is to assist the Church in Taiwan, in the development of their missions program focusing on the leadership training among the foreign laborers employed in Taiwan, to become Tentmaking missionaries. Semi-government and private companies in importan…
Theories for the study of social welfare policy in a comparative context have developed primarily as the study of European, industrialized democracies. The question of whether this literature represents a general theoretical perspective or culture specific effects is a major foc…
This dissertation is a history of the cross-cultural missionary work of the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong) in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines from 1959 to the present. This history is a chronologically organized account of the missionary activities in th…
The prosperity of the global economy over the past decades has been reflected in the increasing interdependence of emerging markets on developments in the U.S. economy. It has recently been accepted that the primary core-axis of world trade and economic growth has been shifted f…
With the integration of global financial markets, securities market regulators are moving toward unified accounting standards to make crossborder comparisons of financial statements less costly. The objective of standards harmonization is subject to empirical examination. The fi…
Syn-tectonic extension is a process that has been observed by previous workers in the eastern Central Range of Taiwan, using geodetic, geologic and seismic data. The details of the location, direction and magnitude of the extension, as well as the mechanism by which extension oc…
This study is to explain why Taiwan’s elites delegate the independent authority of financial and monetary management to central bankers which resulted in survival of the Asian crisis, while Korean political leadership did not do so and the economy faltered in the crisis? My argu…
Betel nut chewing is a social practice that articulates boundaries. The history of betel nut chewing in Southern China indexes the ways in which non-Han minorities were sinicized, demonstrating how betel nut chewing culture was appropriated by Han nobles, and variously incorpora…
The literature of political economy suggests that severe economic crises, excessive foreign debts, and serious budget constraints will lead governments to adopt structural adjustment programs, including trade liberalization and the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs)…
Although Egypt, Jordan, South Korea, and Taiwan collectively account for about 12 percent of total US bilateral aid disbursed since the Second World War, no existing theory or approach to the study of foreign aid can explain varying degrees of aid's institutional efficacy in the…
Austronesian is one of the major language groups spoken. It is believed that Taiwan, Indonesian (east of Wallace line), or Bismarck Archipelago is the star point for Austronesian migrations. It is also suggested that prehistoric cultures of Taiwan were established by the ancesto…
Tokuichi Shiraki and Masamitsu Oshima were the first entomologists who studied termites in Taiwan in the early 1900s.The identification of Coptotermes species in Taiwan and southern Japan was a controversial issue that involved several Japanese entomologists as well as European …
The 20th century has witnessed many movement governments in former authoritarian states such as those in Taiwan, South Korea, Iran, and South Africa. This study is the first attempt in the literature of states and movements to conceptually distinguish movement governments from c…