EDITORIAL: ECFA contingency plan imperative

Economists at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER), commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to conduct a study on an ECFA’s potential impact, said on Wednesday that the deal could increase Taiwan’s annual GDP growth by between 1.65 percentage points and 1.72 percentage points. The ministry claimed the increase might be even bigger if a multiplier effect is taken into consideration.< …more>


Publication Date:08/02/2009
Source: Taipei Times