Taiwan can look to Switzerland for national reform argues Wu Chin-sheng
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/12/28
By: Wu Chin-sheng 吳進生
City of Zug, left, Taipei, right. (By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – How does Taiwan become the Switzerland of the east? We must think about Taiwan and look at Switzerland’s small government, low taxes, optimal land use, safety, and honest practices.
Switzerland’s Canton of Zug is an Economic Hub
Switzerland is a mountainous country, and when looking up, one might think of them as mountains of gold. Taiwan is also mountainous place, but Taiwan’s mountains look desolate.
For the ninth consecutive year, Switzerland was ranked the world’s most competitive economy by the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. According to the 2018 report, Switzerland was followed by the United States, Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, Hong Kong, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Japan and Finland. [FULL STORY]
