Download or read book China Human Development Report 1999 written by Carl Riskin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the changing role of the Chinese state during the transition from central planning to a civil society with a market economy. The discussion as a whole supports the case for a Chinese state that is vigorous and active, but in different ways than in the past. This book contains the most up-to-date Human Development Index (HDI) numbers for China's provinces as well as the Gender Development Index.
Download or read book Human Development Report 1999 written by and published by Human Development Report. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Human Development Report written by United Nations Development Programme and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first National Human Development Report (NHDR) for China. Taking its cue from the 1997 global Human Development Report, a first attempt is made in this report to rank according to a Human Development Index the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in China. The theme of this report is poverty alleviation. The Report summarizes the history and current status of sustainable human development in China. It then looks at the outstanding challenges to be faced and makes a number of broad policy recommendations for tackling them. Because this is the first national HDR undertaken for China, it establishes a baseline for future efforts by discussing in detail a wide spectrum of development issues, including the distribution of income, health care, education and nutrition, population and migration, the status of women, employment, social, security provision, the state of the natural environment, and the reform of state enterprises. This dialogue between the UNDP and China will be especially conducive to all future exchanges between China and foreign experts on social, development. Anyone interested in China, in particular the international business community, will need this book to understand the current status and future prospects for human development among one fifth of the world's population.
Download or read book China Human Development Report written by United Nations Development Programme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its cue from the 1997 Global Human Development Report, it ranks provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities according to a Human Development Index."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book China Human Development Report written by United Nations Development Programme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its cue from the 1997 Global Human Development Report, it ranks provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities according to a Human Development Index."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book China Human Development Report 2002 written by Stockholm Environment Institute and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third China Human Development Report 2002, Making Green Development a Choice, looks at the environmental challenges facing China today especially in the context of its WTO entry and efforts towards a green and clean 2008 Olympics. The report argues that it is now time for the government and people to respond to these challenges and make the right choices to achieve green development and a sustainable future. What impacts do environmental changes have on people's health and livelihoods? How do environmental issues affect overall governance structure? The Report's first chapter begins with a review of China's people and their history and culture as the resource and foundation to build and modernize this vast land. Chapter two assesses the current status of the environment and chapter three examines the forces and trends that determine environmental changes including the linkages between society and environment. Chapter four analyzes the ongoing efforts to put China on the right path and discusses how the responses can be optimized. Chapter five concludes that today's decisions will have significant influence on the degree of sustainability in China's future development. A scenario approach is provided describing two alternatives: today's perilous path and tomorrow's green reform path. Informative and readable, the China Human Development Report 2002 is an invaluable collection of solid statistics, in-depth analysis and thought-provoking ideas for people all over the world to better understand the general system of societal, environmental and economic factors that together make China what it is today and what it can become in the future. The China Human Development Report 2002 was commissioned by UNDP China and was prepared by a team of eminent development professionals under the leadership of Stockholm Environment Institute, an independent, international research institute specializing in sustainable development and environment issues at the local, national, regional and global policy levels.
Download or read book Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization written by Azizur Rahman Khan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens. The authors explore a range of reasons for the disparity and base their conclusions on strong empirical evidence--especially the 1996 survey conducted by the State Statistical Bureau.
Download or read book 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World written by Bob Sutcliffe and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today's highly unequal world. Bob Sutcliffe looks at current affairs, development, and international relations. For anyone wanting to understand the contemporary world, this book probes complex economic issues using innovative diagrams and charts.
Download or read book The China Human Development Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenging Inequities in Health written by Timothy Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a unique view of global inequities in health status and health sytems. Emphasizing socioeconomic conditions, it combines chapters on conceptual and measurement issues with case studies from around the world.
Download or read book Asian Politics in Development written by Robert Benewick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter Introduction -- chapter Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies -- chapter Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation -- chapter Reform and the Role of the State in China -- chapter Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party -- chapter Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present -- chapter State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women? -- chapter Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India -- chapter Bias and Capture: Corruption, Poverty and the Limitations of Civil Society in India -- chapter Between Cant and Corporatism: Creating an Enabling Political Environment for the Poor -- chapter State Entrepreneurship and Community Welfare Services in Urban China -- chapter Creating Wealth and Welfare: Entrepreneurship and the Developmental State in Rural China -- chapter Can Welfare Systems be Evaluated Outside Their Cultural and Historical Context? A Case Study of Children's Homes in Contemporary Japan -- chapter The East Asian Welfare States in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities -- chapter Is Globalisation All It is Cracked Up to Be? -- chapter Globalisation, Privatisation and China's Industrial Labour Systems -- chapter Bibliography of Gordon White's Works -- chapter Notes on Contributors.
Download or read book The Pan Pearl River Delta written by Yue-man Yeung and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2004, top leaders from Guangdong and the surrounding eight provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, together with those of the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, met in Hong Kong, Macao, and Guangzhou and gave birth to Pan-PRD regional grouping (hence the shorthand of "9+2"). This book studies the establishment, amid much fanfare, of this new regional grouping, and its roots in the interaction between globalization and regionalization.
Download or read book Market Development in China written by Belton M. Fleisher and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the analysis of specialists on causes, benefits and problems resulting from China's transition to a market economy. This book deals with several facets of China's economic growth and its rising income inequality. It provides evidence on China's social and economic inequalities and their causes.
Download or read book Regional Inequality in China written by Shenggen Fan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As regional inequality looms large in the policy debate in China, this volume brings together a selection of papers from authors whose work has had real impact on policy, so that researchers and policy makers can have access to them in one place.
Download or read book Gender China and the World Trade Organization written by Günseli Berik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). All contributions have been subjected to the journal's rigorous peer review process and comply with the journal's editorial policies, as overseen by the editor, Diana Strassmann, and the journal's editorial team, including the associate editors, the editorial board, numerous volunteer reviewers, and the journal's in-house editorial staff and freelance style editors. The special issue and book have been made possible by the generous financial support of Rice University and the Ford Foundation-Beijing.
Download or read book Understanding Globalization written by Robert K. Schaeffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the globalization of production and its impact on work and gender relations, the impact of technology on workers around the world, the economic problems associated with debt crisis, the political opportunities associated with democratization, the impact of global warming, the reasons behind China's rise as an economic superpower, and the problems in countries across the Middle East that culminated in the attacks of 9/11.
Download or read book Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics The Hukou System and Migration written by Kam Wing Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many agree that rapid urbanization in China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a mega process significantly reshaping China and the global economy. China’s urbanization also carries a certain mystique, which has long fascinated generations of scholars and journalists alike. As it has turned out, many of the asserted Chinese feats are mostly fancied claims or gross misinterpretations (of statistics, for example). There does exist, however, an urbanization that displays rather uncommon "Chinese" characteristics that remain to inadequately understood. Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China’s hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. These works range from seminal papers on Chinese urban definitions and statistics; and broad-perspective analysis of the hukou system of its first semi-centennial; to examinations of migration trends and geography; and critical evaluations of China’s 2014 urbanization blueprint and hukou reform plan. This convenient assemblage contains many of Chan’s recent important works. Together they also form a relatively coherent set on this topic. They are essential readings to anyone serious about gaining a true understanding of the prodigious urbanization in contemporary China.
