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  • The Growth of Market Relations in Post-Reform Rural China

    A Micro-Analysis of Peasants, Migrants and Peasant Entrepeneurs

    by Hiroshi Sato ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book, based on in-depth field research at the local level, assesses the different factors that are contributing to the transition to a market economy and the growth of networks in rural China. It analyses the different socio-economic actors - peasant households, out-migrants, family businesses and peasant entrepreneurs, uses the key concept of markets as a nexus of social networks, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Human Diversity and Educational Equity in Japan

    Well-Being in the Human Sciences Landscape

    Edited by Yoshiyasu Ida, Teruyuki Fujita, Inho Chung, Toshibumi Kakizawa, Yuhkoh Satoh, Hiroki Yoneda, Hiroshi Sato, Hisae Miyauchi, Mari Kokubu, Soichiro Matsuda, Eishi Komaki ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how Japan, transforming itself into a society that celebrates its rich diversity, is now providing support to its children and youth. It presents a multilayered picture of support provided to, or planned for, young people from the perspective of Human Sciences. It overturns stereotypical impressions of education and youth services in Japan. Part One 'Diversity and Inclusion in ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • Changing Trends in China's Inequality

    Evidence, Analysis, and Prospects

    Edited by Terry Sicular, Shi Li, Ximing Yue, Hiroshi Sato ...
    Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net. Drawing on of household-level data from the China Household Income Project, Changing Trends in China's Inequality provides an ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Rising Inequality in China

    Challenges to a Harmonious Society

    Edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato, Terry Sicular ...
    This book, a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in China (2008), examines the evolution of inequality in China from 2002 to 2007, a period when the new 'harmonious society' development strategy was adopted under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. It fills a gap in knowledge about the outcomes of this development strategy for equity and inequality. Drawing on original information collected from the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Systems Research I

    Essays in Honor of Yasuhiko Takahara on Systems Theory and Modeling

    Edited by Kyoichi Kijima, Junichi Iijima, Ryo Sato, Hiroshi Deguchi, Bumpei Nakano ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research. Researchers and practitioners from Japan and other countries who have been influenced by Takahara have come together from far and wide to contribute their major research masterpieces in the field of systems research in the broadest sense.While the ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Systems Research II

    Essays in Honor of Yasuhiko Takahara on Systems Management Theory and Practice

    Edited by Kyoichi Kijima, Junichi Iijima, Ryo Sato, Hiroshi Deguchi, Bumpei Nakano ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research. Researchers and practitioners from Japan and other countries who have been influenced by Takahara have come together from far and wide to contribute their major research masterpieces in the field of systems research in the broadest sense.While the ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Multi-Agent Applications with Evolutionary Computation and Biologically Inspired Technologies: Intelligent Techniques for Ubiquity and Optimization

    Edited by Shu-Heng Chen, Yasushi Kambayashi, Hiroshi Sato ...
    Biologically inspired computation methods are growing in popularity in intelligent systems, creating a need for more research and information. Multi-Agent Applications with Evolutionary Computation and Biologically Inspired Technologies: Intelligent Techniques for Ubiquity and Optimization compiles numerous ongoing projects and research efforts in the design of agents in light of recent ... Read more

    $261.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of the 23rd Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems

    Edited by Hiroshi Sato, Saori Iwanaga, Akira Ishii ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents selected papers from the 23rd Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2019), which was held in Tottori, Japan, on December 6–8, 2019.Today, various types of intelligent system can be found everywhere. However, none of them can be developed or understood from only one perspective. As such, this book collects unique ways of thinking about intelligent ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China

    Edited by Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes.Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

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  • Welfare, Work, and Poverty

    Social Assistance in China

    by Qin Gao ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange Series
    Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world's ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

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