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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jane duckett”
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  • The Entrepreneurial State in China

    Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin

    by Jane Duckett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Chinese State's Retreat from Health

    Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment

    by Jane Duckett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe, Jane Duckett argues that the state’s retreat from health in China was not a simple consequence of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • China's Changing Welfare Mix

    Local Perspectives

    Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, Jane Duckett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    This book draws attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of local welfare provision that lies behind broad national policies and programmes. Their focus on local diversity is particularly relevant to understanding the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Essays in Honour of Gordon White

    Edited by Robert Benewick, Marc Blecher, Sarah Cook ...
    This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization. ... Read more

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  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

    Edited by Rachel Murphy ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on China’s economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its social development. This book examines labour migration in China, focusing on the social dimensions of this phenomenon, as well as on ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Contemporary South Korean Society

    A Critical Perspective

    Edited by Hee-Yeon Cho, Lawrence Surendra, Hyo-Je Cho ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    The growing importance of the Korean economy in the global arena and the spread of the so-called ‘Korean wave’ in Asia mean there is an increasing desire to understand contemporary Korean Society. To this end, this book provides a critical and progressive analysis of the diverse issues that impact on and shape contemporary Korean society at both local and national levels.The contributors address ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Education and Training for Development in East Asia

    The Political Economy of Skill Formation in Newly Industrialised Economies

    by David Ashton, Francis Green, Donna James, Johnny Sung ...
    The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth. ... Read more

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  • Welfare Reform in East Asia

    Towards Workfare

    Edited by Chak Kwan Chan, Kinglun Ngok ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia

    Edited by Ka Ho Mok, Ray Forrest ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    The search for good governance has become an increasingly important element of public policy and public management and is high on the political agenda of East Asian countries. The need for robust governance structures and institutions was brought into sharp focus by the Asian Financial Crisis which adversely affected most East Asian societies. Since then they have begun to look for ways to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

    The Dragon Goes Global

    by Hui Feng ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China’s WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, ... Read more

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  • 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