03032nam a2200253   450000500170000000800410001703500150005810000170007324500910009026000520018130000110023349000260024450001560027050200580042652019130048465000330239765000260243070000470245670000350250370000460253871000710258481000580265585600650271320260818113311.0280998s1988    th      r    0000|0 eng d  a.b102697571 aLi, Jing-wen10aFactors behind the changes in energy intensities of the manufacturing sector in Taiwan  aBangkok :bAsian Institute of Technology,c1988  a128 p.1 aThesis ;vno. ET-88-8  aA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development  aThesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988  aBecause of its large share of energy consumption, the energy  intensity changes of the manufacturing sector have influential  impacts on the overall energy consumption in Taiwan, Republic of  China . The analysis of the factors behind energy intensity changes  of the manufacturing sector is important for formulating economic  and energy policies regarding the development of the whole  industry. The Divisia index approach is employed in this study to  separate the components of the manufacturing energy intensity  changes in Taiwan during 1971 - 1985. The manufacturing sector is  disaggregated into four groups according to their energy  intensities and the classification of ''strategic" and "non strategic" industries in the national economic development plan.  The four manufacturing groups are further disaggregated into two digit subgroups. The factors of the changes in energy intensities  are decomposed into two main components: the effect of changes in  production structure and the effect of changes in subgroup energy  intensities. The effect of changes in production structure is  further disaggregated into group and subgroup effects. The  relations between energy intensities and the labor, capital and  multi - factor productivities, as well as between energy intensities  and energy prices are also analyzed qualitatively.  It is found that improvements in the energy intensities at  the 2 - digit industrial subgroup level are the main reasons for the  decline in the aggregate energy intensities of the manufacturing  sector. Though the structural changes at the four - group level has  some contribution to the improvements in energy intensities of the  manufacturing sector, the unfavorable sectoral shifts at the 2 - digi t industrial subgroup level make the contribution of  structural effects to the improvements in energy intensities of  the manufacturing sector not significant. 0aIndustrial districtsxTaiwan 0aEnergy policyxTaiwan1 aChateau, Bertrand, eExamination Committee1 aShrestha, Ram M.,eChairperson1 aFoell, Wesley K., eExamination Committee2 aTaiwan Cement Company  Tai wan, Rep. of China, eScholarship Donor2 aAsian Institute of Technology.tThesis ;vno. ET-88-8  3Full-texyuhttp://203.159.5.9/ait-thesis/detail.php?q=B18786