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…
Initiating the use of Computerised information systems (CISs) has become a global trend, including in Taiwan. Although CISs sound promising for improving clinical effectiveness and efficiency, evidence demonstrating their actual benefits is still limited. How CISs influence nurs…
This thesis has sought to investigate the nature of the governance system relating to basketball in Taiwanese society with emphasis on the development of basketball against the backdrop of societal development in Taiwan and in the broader political-cultural environment. Two comp…
This thesis aims to establish a model for understanding the intricate motivations and significances of Shakespearean adaptations in the twenty-first-century China and Taiwan. While the term Chinese Shakespeare usually includes the Taiwanese adaptations of the Bard's work, it fai…
This study has sought to address the nature of the evolution of sports policy in ROC/Taiwan since 1973, within the context of a strategic relations approach to the analysis of policy. These aims have been addressed by the development of the analysis of the ROC/Taiwan's position …
This thesis reviews the system of governance of professional baseball in Taiwan, which has developed since its inception in 1990. The analysis undertaken reviews three case studies of major events in the baseball world in Taiwan to provide an insight into the principal interests…
Today's processes of cultural globalization involve three major trends: (I)the global expansion of transnational communications conglomerates; (2) the global implementation of market-oriented cultural policies; and (3) the global diffusion of new communication technologies. Thes…
Drawing upon a series of interviews with politicians, sports administrators, coaches, journalists and academics and with analysis based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), this thesis examines elite sports development policy in Taiwan within a political context. It invest…
This thesis comprises three studies that empirically evaluate the perceptions of sports managers and academics of the importance of competencies for sports managers in Taiwan. First, a systematic review technique is conducted to review the literature on competency-based studies …