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Articulating and implementing national development plans (ndp s) has been a popular approach taken by most governments in the world in response to the opportunities and challenges occurring in domestic and international spheres. Since the 2000s the Taiwanese government has launched a series of ndp s with different goals, foci, and tactical approaches. This paper adopts a retrospective lens to examine how English language education has been strategically situated in the ndp s of Taiwan and reflects on both the alignments and misalignments between the unveiled goals of the ndp s and the policies pertaining to English language education of the nation over the last two decades. In the pursuit of the goals of the contemporary ndp of the nation, strategic remodelling of teacher education programmes is needed through: (1) expanding bilingual/all-English programmes within departments; (2) advocating departmental interaction within/across teacher training institutes; and (3) optimising training and teaching opportunities for foreign students.

This article looks at public values as an alternative public management instrument to the traditional public instruments or those of New Public Management (NPM). China offers very explicit examples of public values deliberately built on the boundary between the public and the private. We examine this issue through the civil servant recruitment examinations in China and the point of view of the candidates. We propose a cultural approach to the 'publicness' of these examinations to understand the public/private articulation of the values they convey and their roles in the field of public management in China. We highlight a set of spiritual and moral values from the private sphere that are transmitted in the public values through the civil servant recruitment examinations, often to legitimize the government and its social control. Points for practitioners In this article we consider public management instruments in China that are often relatively unknown or considered archaic. Their uses offer original examples of instruments that are embedded in Chinese society that open out the spectrum of public values towards private values, mainly spiritual and moral. We wish to make an empirical contribution to the debate on the role of public values in public management. We investigate the civil servant recruitment examinations in China through their content and the values they transmit. Candidates for the examinations explain to us the values that guide their preparation for public jobs and we analyse their role in Chinese public management.

International audience ; This article looks at public values as an alternative public management instrument to the traditional public instruments or those of New Public Management (NPM). China offers very explicit examples of public values deliberately built on the boundary between the public and the private. We examine this issue through the civil servant recruitment examinations in China and the point of view of the candidates. We propose a cultural approach to the "publicness" of these examinations to understand the public/private articulation of the values they convey and their roles in the field of public management in China. We highlight a set of spiritual and moral values from the private sphere that are transmitted in the public values through the civil servant recruitment examinations, often to legitimise the government and its social control.

International audience ; This article looks at public values as an alternative public management instrument to the traditional public instruments or those of New Public Management (NPM). China offers very explicit examples of public values deliberately built on the boundary between the public and the private. We examine this issue through the civil servant recruitment examinations in China and the point of view of the candidates. We propose a cultural approach to the "publicness" of these examinations to understand the public/private articulation of the values they convey and their roles in the field of public management in China. We highlight a set of spiritual and moral values from the private sphere that are transmitted in the public values through the civil servant recruitment examinations, often to legitimise the government and its social control.

Yunnanese Chinese in Myanmar: past and present -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- A Historical Overview -- A Widened Gap Between the North and the South in Post-Independence Myanmar -- Reflection on the Yunnanese Chinese Community in Myanmar Today -- Conclusion.

This dissertation consists of three essays on sovereign credit default swaps (CDSs). The first essay studies the relationship between the China sovereign and bank CDS spreads and the determinants of the China sovereign CDS spread changes using the copula model and regression analysis. Our results show a strengthened tail dependence of sovereign-bank CDS pairs, and the tail dependence coefficient is higher for commercial banks than for policy banks. U.S. stock market returns, high-yield spread changes, and changes in foreign currency reserve/GDP ratio are important global and macroeconomic factors in explaining variation in China's sovereign credit risk. Domestic factors play important roles in explaining the China sovereign CDS spread changes, especially during the trade war period. The second essay studies the explanatory power of country-level and market-level volatilities for Western European sovereign CDS spreads during the European sovereign debt crisis and short-selling ban periods. We include both historical and option-implied volatility measures. Our results show that the changes in country-specific and market-level volatilities are important factors in explaining the sovereign CDS spread changes and that option-implied volatility contains more information than historical volatility. Our results also raise the question of whether there should be a universal ban on short selling. The last essay examines the dependence structure of the sovereign CDS spreads between the U.S. and 36 countries located in Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Our results show that the tail dependence coefficients of U.S.-Western European and U.S.-Central & Eastern European sovereign CDS pairs are non-zero. We perform a cross-sectional analysis to study the determinants of co-dependence. The results show that higher trade flow and larger foreign exposure of the U.S. banking system are associated with a higher probability of large joint increases in the sovereign credit risks of the U.S. and European countries.