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專題研究報告一

第三篇 厚植國際化趨勢下的國家競爭力

On the other hand, greater moral and ethical burden have been directed to the
countries in this region as they gradually become developed societies. East Asian

countries have transformed themselves from ‘recipient’ countries to ‘emerging
donors’ (Cheng & Chan, 2016). International communities expect these countries
playing critical roles in promoting development assistance at the global level.
Thus, East Asian countries have to engage with the international assistance in a

humanitarian manner.
It is under such wider context that this paper aims to analyze a seemingly
contradictory/opposite development of talent policy and international assistance at
the domestic level in East Asia in relation to how talent is to be mobile and used

across the globe. It also discusses the new scenario of talent mobility in wider
Asian region with respect to the emerging role played by East Asian countries. We
would like to argue that internationalization is not solely to maximize the ‘benefit’
or ‘advantage’ of individual country forgetting their moral or ethical responsibility

in assisting developing countries. Instead, we propose a new model in sharing talent
among developed and developing countries.

Ⅱ A Re-modernized Development in East Asia

The major transformation of modern societies across the global is to become

a knowledge-based entity. The traditional developmental model relied upon the
mass labor, capital, land and raw materials. However, the new growth theory has
confirmed that the desire and unlimited wishes drive the growth of innovation and
new technologies requiring intensive accumulation of human capital and knowledge
production (Jones, 1996). The new developmental engines of contemporary nation

states are heavily reliant on the production, dissemination and application of

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