The survey was conducted before the Ministry of Economic Affairs released an impact assessment of the proposed cross-strait ECFA based on an econometric model analysis by the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER), whose findings that the pact would lift Taiwan’s economic growth by between 1.6 percentage points to 1.72 percentage points annual and add over 230,000 employment opportunities, is widely disputed.< …more>
Publication Date：08/03/2009
Source： Taiwan News
By Dennis Engbarth, Staff Reporter