How Taiwan Will Make Its People Think Harder To Stoke The Economy

Anyone can get a degree in Taiwan. The island’s 146 universities graduate as many as 300,000 students per year,with spaces left. Taiwan is unwinding meanwhile from decades of poverty and risky business ventures, with elders widely cautioning their 20-some children against that career track. The result, studies have turned into a rite of passage, not a period of stimulus. Then graduates go for the safe jobs instead of taking chances to start a company or develop some new product, despite pleas ...