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Unlike Mexico and South Korea, Taiwan has never hosted an Olympic Games, and is very unlikely to do so. But Taiwan, or the Republic of China (ROC), as its government calls it, has had the most intense, long-term and stable economic growth of the three. Between 1965 and 1988, real GNP grew at an annual average of 9%.1 The value of manufacturing increased from 15.6% of GDP in 1955 to a peak of 37.6% in 1985.
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© 2006 John Minns
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Minns, J. (2006). Taiwan: the Migrant State. In: The Politics of Developmentalism. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625563_7
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