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Yeh, Shu-jen.

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Economic growth and the farm economy in colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Economic growth and the farm economy in colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945./
Author:	Yeh, Shu-jen.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1991,
Description:	358 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05, Section: A, page: 1841.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-05A.
Subject:	Agricultural economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9130700

Economic growth and the farm economy in colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945.
Yeh, Shu-jen.

Economic growth and the farm economy in colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991 - 358 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-05, Section: A, page: 1841.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1991.

This thesis analyzes the agricultural development of the Japanese colonial Taiwan and the welfare change of its population. The results of this thesis cast implications about the effect of imperialism on the economic development of a colony and on the welfare of the colonized people. The analysis also provides an appraisal of the key factors to the economic development.Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172150
Agricultural economics.

Economic growth and the farm economy in colonial Taiwan, 1895-1945.
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520 $a This thesis analyzes the agricultural development of the Japanese colonial Taiwan and the welfare change of its population. The results of this thesis cast implications about the effect of imperialism on the economic development of a colony and on the welfare of the colonized people. The analysis also provides an appraisal of the key factors to the economic development.
520 $a The principal finding of this thesis is that the whole Taiwan population was better off over the Japanese colonial period and even much better off in the 1930s when many third world economies stagnated. Per capita consumption of the agricultural sector expanded at 2.76% per annum in 1904/37. This rapid growth came from a fast expansion in agricultural production and an upward trend of the agricultural terms of trade.
520 $a This finding is contrary to what the opponents of imperialism have proposed. The opponents of imperialism claim that product growth in a colonized country cannot enrich its people because the colony's wealth is both drained by the metropolitan country through unequal terms of trade and through monopolistic and monopsonistic power enjoyed by the merchants from the imperialist countries, and is extracted through domestic heavy taxation to pay for the colonial administration and for the maintenance of armies and police forces. However, the experience of Japanese occupation of Taiwan shows that the agricultural terms of trade did not always move unfavorably to the agricultural sector and the effect of market incompleteness and government taxation on farmers' welfare was not so strong as to make farmers' worse off.
520 $a The major contributor to welfare improvement in prewar Taiwan is the expansion of real disposable income. Real disposable income increased at 2.33% per annum in 1904/40. Three factors contribute to this rapid growth: a strongly motivated government toward development which puts development as a national and lasting goal, the ability of government to choose an efficient development path in terms of Taiwan's resource endowments, and the responsive population with strong desire to achieve better life. This last factor indicates that policies taking away most of the fruit of economic development from the individuals will lead to economic failure and drag the economy back to economic backwardness.
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