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Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan

Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317462408
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan written by James Reardon-Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lukang is a sleepy provincial town on the east coast of Taiwan. The Lukang "rebellion" was a series of well-organised mass demonstrations in 1986 and 1987 to block construction by the DuPont Corporation of a titanium dioxide plant nearby. If this protest had occurred just a few years earlier, no doubt it would have been crushed by a powerful government determined to promote development at any cost. If it had been a few years later, it probably would have passed unnoticed. But it came at a time just when environmental consciousness in Taiwan had reached a critical mass and as the government was introducing political reforms allowing unprecendented scope to new forms of civil action. In this atmosphere, a handful of determined, capable activists, bent on keeping a giant multinational corporation out of their "old home", focused the attention of the entire island on Lukang, raised the national consciousness about threats to the natural environment, and challenged the rules that government officials and industrial leaders in Taiwan had come to take for granted. The Lukang rebellion was one of those small events with large consequences that make for interesting and significant history.

Pollution, Politics, and Foreign Investment in Taiwan

Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780873327022
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Pollution, Politics, and Foreign Investment in Taiwan written by James Reardon-Anderson and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lukang "rebellion" was one of those small events with large consequences that make for interesting and significant history. Reardon-Anderson tells the story of how mass demonstrations blocked construction of a titanium dioxide plant near a sleepy provincial town in Taiwan.

Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations?

Author : Judith Myrle Dean
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? written by Judith Myrle Dean and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results from 2,886 manufacturing joint venture projects from 1993--96 show that EJVs from all source countries go into provinces with high concentrations of foreign investment, relatively abundant stocks of skilled workers, concentrations of potential local suppliers, special incentives, and less state ownership. Environmental stringency does affect location choice, but not as expected. Low environmental levies are a significant attraction only for joint ventures in highly-polluting industries with partners from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (China). In contrast, joint ventures with partners from OECD sources are not attracted by low environmental levies, regardless of the pollution intensity of the industry. The authors discuss the likely role of technological differences in explaining these results"--Abstract.

Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle

Author : Michael Ying-Mao Kav
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315287838
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle by : Michael Ying-Mao Kav

Download or read book Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle written by Michael Ying-Mao Kav and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume arises from a major conference on issues of importance to the future of Taiwan and the region. With contributions by scholars from Taiwan and the West, the book is divided into sections on: political reform and development on Taiwan, Taiwan's changing political economy, social and environmental issues on Taiwan, Taiwan external relations and the future of Taiwan-PRC relations. Among the many issues addressed within this framework are the evolution of democracy, local politics, Taiwan and the international division of labour, the labour movement, environmentalism, international commercial links and the role of the United States in Taiwan-PRC relations.

Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China

Author : Phillip Stalley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804775141
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China by : Phillip Stalley

Download or read book Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China written by Phillip Stalley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "pollution havens"? The debate over this question has never before been the focus of a book about China. Phillip Stalley examines the development of Chinese law governing the environmental impact of foreign investors, describes how regional competition for investment has influenced environmental regulation, and analyzes the environmental practices of foreign and Chinese companies. He finds only modest evidence that integration with the global economy has transformed China into a pollution haven. Indeed, after China opened its domestic market, the entry of foreign films largely strengthened the environmental protection regime, including the oversight of foreign firms' environmental practices. Nevertheless, foreign firms (and the competition to lure them) have posed new challenges to controlling industrial pollution. Stalley identifies the conditions under which foreign investment contributes to and undermines environmental protection, offering readers a solid understanding of China's environmental challenges. He also builds on existing theory and provides hypotheses that can be tested with other developing nations.

Foreign Investment in Taiwan

Author : Frank Ta-Hsiung Chen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Investment in Taiwan written by Frank Ta-Hsiung Chen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The political economy of direct foreign investment

Author : Hao-lin Yuan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The political economy of direct foreign investment written by Hao-lin Yuan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China

Author : Judith M. Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China written by Judith M. Dean and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most contentious debates today is whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards, turning them into pollution havens. Empirical studies to date show little evidence to support the pollution haven hypothesis, but suffer potentially from omitted variable bias, specification, and measurement errors. The authors estimate the strength of pollution-haven behavior by examining the location choices of equity joint venture (EJV) projects in China. They derive a location choice model from a theoretical framework that incorporates the firm's production and abatement decision, agglomeration, and factor abundance. The authors estimate conditional logit and nested logit models using new data sets containing information on a sample of EJV projects, effective environmental levies on water pollution, and estimates of Chinese pollution-intensity for 3-digit ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification) industries. Results from 2,886 manufacturing joint venture projects from 1993-96 show that EJVs from all source countries go into provinces with high concentrations of foreign investment, relatively abundant stocks of skilled workers, concentrations of potential local suppliers, special incentives, and less state ownership. Environmental stringency does affect location choice, but not as expected. Low environmental levies are a significant attraction only for joint ventures in highly-polluting industries with partners from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (China). In contrast, joint ventures with partners from OECD sources are not attracted by low environmental levies, regardless of the pollution intensity of the industry. The authors discuss the likely role of technological differences in explaining these results.

Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics

Author : Bruce Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315290391
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics by : Bruce Dickson

Download or read book Assessing the Lee Teng-hui Legacy in Taiwan's Politics written by Bruce Dickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12 years of Lee Teng-hui's presidency were marked by a series of contrary trends such as progress in the consolidation of Taiwan's democracy, and periodic conflicts with China. This book assesses the complex legacy of Lee Teng-hui by looking at his accomplishments and setbacks.

Ecocriticism in Taiwan

Author : Chia-ju Chang
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538282
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ecocriticism in Taiwan written by Chia-ju Chang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest centers for promoting ecocriticism outside the West and has continued to play a central role in shaping ecocriticism in East Asia. This is the first English anthology dedicated to the vibrant development of ecocriticism in Taiwan. It provides a window to Taiwan’s important contributions to international ecocriticism, especially an emerging “vernacular” trend in the field emphasizing the significance of local perspectives and styles, including non-western vocabularies, aesthetics, cosmologies, and political ideologies. Taiwan's unique history, geographic location, geology, and subtropical climate generate locale-specific, vernacular thinking about island ecology and environmental history, as well as global environmental issues such as climate change, dioxin pollution, species extinction, energy decisions, pollution, and environmental injustice. In hindsight, Taiwan's industrial modernization no longer appears as a success narrative among Asia's “Four Little Dragons,” but as a cautionary tale revealing the brute force entrepreneurial exploitation of the land and the people. In this light, this volume can be seen as a critical response to Taiwan's postcolonial, capitalist-industrial modernity, as manifested in the scholars’ readings of Taiwan's "mountain and river," ocean, animal, and aboriginal (non)fictional narratives, environmental documentaries, and art installations. This volume is endowed with a mixture of ecocosmopolitan and indigenous sensitivities. Though dominated by the Han Chinese ethnic group and its Confucian ideology, Taiwan is a place of complicated ethnic identities and affiliations. The succession of changing colonial and political regimes, made even more complex by the island’s sixteen aboriginal groups and several diasporic subcultures (South Asian immigrants, Western expatriates, and diverse immigrants from the Chinese mainland), has led to an ongoing quest for political and cultural identity. This complexity urges Taiwan-based ecoscholars to pay attention to the diasporic, comparative, and intercultural dimensions of local specificity, either based on their own diasporic experience or the cosmopolitan features of the Taiwanese texts they scrutinize. This cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic is a key contribution Taiwan has to offer current ecocritical scholarship.

Government and Politics in Taiwan

Author : Dafydd Fell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317285069
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Government and Politics in Taiwan written by Dafydd Fell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an experienced teacher and scholar, this new and revised second edition of Government and Politics in Taiwan introduces students to the big questions concerning change and continuity in Taiwanese politics and governance. Taking a critical approach, Dafydd Fell provides students with the essential background to the history and development of the political system, as well as an explanation of the key structures, processes and institutions that have shaped Taiwan over the last few decades. Using key features such as suggestions for further reading and end-of-chapter study questions, this textbook covers: • the transition to democracy and party politics; • cross-Strait relations and foreign policy; • electoral politics and voting; • social movements; • national identity; • gender politics. Having been fully updated to take to take stock of the 2012 and 2016 General Elections, the Sunflower Movement and new developments in cross-Strait relations, this is an essential text for any course on Taiwanese politics, Chinese politics and East Asian politics.

The Other Taiwan, 1945-92

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548515X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Other Taiwan, 1945-92 written by Murray A. Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of the socio-economic post-war transformation on Taiwan's political system, environment, religious structures, the relationships between the sexes and the different ethnic populations. A complex revisionist portrait of the country emerges.

Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization

Author : Alan M. Wachman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315286955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization written by Alan M. Wachman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taiwan has become a democracy despite the inability of its political elite to agree on the national identity of the state. This is a study of the history of democratisation in the light of the national identity problem, based on interviews with leading figures in the KMT and opposition parties.

The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship

Author : Ian Skoggard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315284952
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship by : Ian Skoggard

Download or read book The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship written by Ian Skoggard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.

Taiwan's Enterprises in Global Perspective

Author : Nian-Tzu Wang
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563240713
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Taiwan's Enterprises in Global Perspective by : Nian-Tzu Wang

Download or read book Taiwan's Enterprises in Global Perspective written by Nian-Tzu Wang and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1992 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to further the understanding of the transformation of the Taiwan economy over the past four decades and thus to throw light on issues in development theory and policy, especially for other developing economies. Included is a series of enterprise field studies.

Taiwan Enterprises in Global Perspective

Author : Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315486350
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Taiwan Enterprises in Global Perspective written by Xiaohu (Shawn) Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was conceived to further the understanding of the transformation of the Taiwan economy over the past four decades and thus to throw light on issues in development theory and policy, especially for other developing economies. It is built on the micro foundation of a series of enterprise field studies which were conducted by a consortium of eight Taiwan universities under the auspices of Taiwan's National Science Council. Although Taiwan's status as one of the "four dragons" and a rapidly growing Asian Pacific economy is well understood, information on its development remains relatively scarce. Publications of most international organizations rarely include Taiwan as an entity, and scholarly analysis of the causes of the Taiwan miracle are often speculative. Those based on empirical research are by and large at the macro level; few are based on field studies of one of the most critical factors - Taiwan's enterprises. This volume aims to fill the void and goes a long way toward developing a micro perspective on this important economy.

Student Activism in Asia

Author : Meredith Leigh Weiss
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081667969X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Student Activism in Asia written by Meredith Leigh Weiss and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressed--most famously in China's Tiananmen Square and in Burma. But despite their significance, these movements have received only a fraction of the notice that has been given to American and European student protests of the 1960s and 1970s. The first book in decades to redress this neglect, Student Activism in Asia tells the story of student protest movements across Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, the contributors examine ten countries, focusing on those where student protests have been particularly fierce and consequential: China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. They explore similarities and differences among student movements in these countries, paying special attention to the influence of four factors: higher education systems, students' collective identities, students' relationships with ruling regimes, and transnational flows of activist ideas and inspirations. The authors include leading specialists on student activism in each of the countries investigated. Together, these experts provide a rich picture of an important tradition of political protest that has ebbed and flowed but has left indelible marks on Asia's sociopolitical landscape. Contributors: Patricio N. Abinales, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Prajak Kongkirati, Thammasat U, Thailand; Win Min, Vahu Development Institute; Stephan Ortmann, City U of Hong Kong; Mi Park, Dalhousie U, Canada; Patricia G. Steinhoff, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Mark R. Thompson, City U of Hong Kong; Teresa Wright, California State U, Long Beach.