Dr. L. Klein, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, has said that Taiwan may reach the economic level of Italy by the year 2000 and join the ranks of the industrialized nations.
諾貝爾獎經濟學得主克萊恩博士曾說，如果外在環境沒有太大的衝擊，公元二千年時台灣可能達到義大利的經濟水準，進入先進工業化社會之列。