But a flip side to economic growth, something the new administration needs to address, is the worsening problem of unemployment. In the first quarter of this year the number of unemployed climbed to 270,000 people, and narrowly-defined unemployment rose to a new high of 2.8 %. Under the combined pressures of industrial upgrading, internationalization and liberalization, Taiwan's economy is still facing a number of difficult challenges.
但是經濟成長的另一端，也是新政府最需要面對的，則是隱藏性的失業率持續惡化，今年第一季失業人口二十七萬人，狹義的失業率也攀升至百分之二．八，也是歷年最高，在產業升級、國際化與自由化的壓力下，台灣的經濟還有很多難關要闖。