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The article discusses the trends of international intellectual property protection for developing countries such as Taiwan, Singapore and China.

This paper employs a panel of 23 local governments in Taiwan over 1998–2010 to re-estimate the redistribution effects of intergovernmental fiscal transfers by considering a self-financing resources of local government as the transition variable in panel smooth transition regression models. Empirical results show that the income (or tax revenues) redistribution effects of fiscal transfer policies are nonlinear and vary with time and across local governments. The grants from central government can improve income and tax revenues distribution of local governments; however, the centrally allotted tax revenues have inverse effects and the total fiscal transfers have ambiguous effects. The total fiscal transfer is a proper policy instrument for improving income redistribution, and the grants for improving tax revenues redistribution. However, high self-financing resources ratios are harmful for these redistribution effects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rapid growth in the East Asian newly industrializing countries depended on institutional innovation. Authoritarian governments like Taiwan faced a dilemma: how to assure investors in a policymaking environment that made commitments difficult to sustain? In contrast to both the early developmental state literature and the new literature on authoritarian institutions, this article shows that 'small' institutions have had an effect on both the credibility of commitments and the composition of the firms that the Taiwanese state sought to assure. In the 1950-1960s, insulated decision-making bodies with strong participation by foreigners and export-processing zones signaled government intent to both foreign and domestic firms. In the 1970-1980s, democratic decision-making structures were more decentralized and state interventions shifted in a more market-oriented direction. Even so, the Taiwanese government continued to use institutions such as the Hsinchu Science Park to extend assurances to domestic investors engaged in risky high-technology ventures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores the industrial policy of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Compatibility between free trade and industrial policy; Re-industrialization of Hong Kong; Performance of the textile industry.

Examines the experience of industrialization in Taiwan between 1952 and 1972, its policy choices as compared to those made by African countries, and the lessons that may be of relevance to African industrialization strategies. Preconditions for industrial development; Policies for industrial development in Taiwan, 1952-72; The state as agent of development; Conclusions.

South Korea and Taiwan share common structural characteristics and export-led industrialization. Several studies have documented in active role of government, beyond correcting market failures. But the role of government differs. The Taiwan government has been supportive rather than interventionist, whereas the Korean government has been collaborative and even coercive in relations with the private sector. Government in both countries helped launch and sustain the export-led strategy, taking into consideration the initial conditions in industrial organization and structure, capital markets and trade. Although the strategy contributed to export development, once put in place, the respective governments have been unwilling and unable to adjust their role to changing circumstances. This rigidity accounts for the inefficiency of government in Korea in the 1970s and in Taiwan in the 1980s. Since the import substitution in the 1950s, the Korean government has intervened in the allocation of resources creating an entrenched policy bureaucracy that controls the means for plan implementation. The institutional setup provides domestic market protection, implements industrial targeting, and issues permits of entry in many industries and foreign loan guarantees.