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Economic history of Taiwan: a survey
Author(s) -
Wu TsongMin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8446.2004.00123.x
Subject(s) - colonial period , period (music) , per capita , colonialism , economic history , geography , history , economy , economic growth , political science , development economics , economics , demography , sociology , archaeology , population , physics , acoustics
This article surveys research on Taiwan’s economic history for the past fifteen years, covering a period from approximately the eighteenth to early twentieth century. It discusses the works of economists as well as studies by researchers in history and other fields. The topics selected for the survey are: change of Taiwan’s per capita GDP in the long‐term; trade and development; aborigine property rights; and institutional change in the early Japanese colonial period.