The News Lens
Date: 2018/02/09
By: Justin Hugo
Taiwan has outgrown its current economic strategy and needs to move up the value
Credit: Yulin Huang
chain to become more like the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.
This is the final part of a 5 part series. You can start with part 1 here.
Equality and the future
There is an important area in which East Asian countries still have not caught up and perform poorly as a whole – work hours and off days.
Source (data from latest year): The Conference Board.
In terms of work hours, Singaporeans work the longest among the developed countries – 2,237 hours annually. People in Hong Kong work the second-longest, at 2,175 hours, while South Korea comes in third at 2,088 hours. Taiwanese endure long hours as well, but not to the same extent as their counterparts in the other Asian Tigers do, clocking in 1,915 hours per year. [FULL STORY]
