| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 高階公共管理組 === 94 === Our nation’s oversea representative institutions perform several functions in areas of diplomacy, economic cooperation, cultural promotion, and overseas Chinese affairs; each differs in scopes and tasks. Aside from routine personnel and logistical affairs, the essential issue to be tackled by these institutions is the maintenance of office property and management of asset.
The establishment of overseas institution is subject to historical, economic and political considerations, and the basic expense of the smallest representative office amounts no less than 100 millions NT dollars. The management and maintenance of 120 overseas representatives office, even by cooperate management standard, require effective managing concept and cost-benefit evaluation. However, the above mentioned expenses would bring heavy financial burdens to government whose budget and fiscal policy is limited in scope and constrained by rules.
Currently, the number of our government representative offices stands at 120, among them, 87% (104 offices) are leased and the annual leasing expenditure amounts to nearly 800 millions NT dollars. The text, which follows, will discuss costs of property use (whether owned or leased), pros and cons of government ownership vs. leasing policy (such as continued leasing vs. annual budgetary buy-out policy, way of purchase by government direct capital purchase vs. budgetary allocation through investments of state-owned financial institutions, etc.)
To sum up, given changing international circumstances and domestic political considerations added to our diplomatic difficulty, the following analytical text, which involves all sorts of time and human factors influencing establishment and purchase of overseas government institution, will try to evaluate based on pure economic effects.
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