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Taiwan’s Lost Decades: Populism and Internal Contradiction

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Lost Decades in Growth Performance

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Taiwan’s economic performance deteriorated decisively after the late 1990s as the growth rate of GDP and per capita GDP fell. So did the growth of wages in manufacturing and services. Unemployment rose gradually but steadily.

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Chu, YP. (2015). Taiwan’s Lost Decades: Populism and Internal Contradiction. In: Chu, YP. (eds) Lost Decades in Growth Performance. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Economics and Banking. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478757_6

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