When Chinese Nationalists retreated from the mainland to Taiwan in 1949-50, they governed a people barely recovered from the Japanese occupation and Pacific War. Wartime damage to factories, plants and buildings had not been repaired and food was barely sufficient to feed an increasing...

Conceptual framework -- No haste : the 1996 national development conference -- Active opening, effective management : the 2001 economic development advisory conference -- Active management, effective opening : the 2006 conference on sustaining Taiwan's economic development -- "Prosper again" :...