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  • Understanding Social Changes in China

    Contributions of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS)

    Edited by Xiaogang Wu, Weidong Wang, Jia Miao, Angran Li ...
    Drawing on two decades of data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), this collection examines fundamental social transformations in contemporary China across gender, marriage, living arrangements, and subjective well-being from 2003 to 2021.The contributions utilise longitudinal CGSS data to analyse key dimensions of social change including women's labour force participation patterns, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Understanding Inequality in China

    The Contribution of the Chinese General Social Survey

    Edited by Xiaogang Wu, Jia Miao ...
    This edited volume provides an overview of inequality and stratification in contemporary China. A rare and timely resource, it presents key research on the topic published in Chinese Sociological Review from 2011 to 2023, using one or multiple waves of Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, reflecting the advancement of the field over the past decade.The CGSS, launched in 2003 and modelled ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Information Retrieval

    26th China Conference, CCIR 2020, Xi'an, China, August 14–16, 2020, Proceedings

    Edited by Zhicheng Dou, Qiguang Miao, Wei Lu, Jiaxin Mao, Guang Jia ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.*The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: search and recommendation, NLP for IR, and IR in finance.* Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

    Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania

    by Benta A. Abuya, Christopher Carey, Rita Chaikin, Penny Crofts, Shamita Das Dasgupta, Eileen Farao, Nina Fitriana, Christine Forster, Caren J. Frost, Naomi Graetz, Miao Jia, Vedna Jivan, Mark King, Koentjoro, Lois R. Mberengwa, Nilufer Medora, Jacquelyn C.A. Meshelemiah, Jane Rose Njue, Peggy G. Ntseane, Jason Prior, Dorothy Rombo, Hannah Safran, Indrani Sinha, Ahon Adaka Terfa, Sam Winter, Chen Yiyun, Maha N. Younes ...
    This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. The 16 chapters in this volume (Volume II) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 18 chapters ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • The Economics of Poverty

    History, Measurement, and Policy

    by Martin Ravallion ...
    There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • Happiness for All?

    Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream

    by Carol Graham ...
    How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among these is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America today? How about elsewhere in the world? Carol Graham draws on cutting-edge research linking income ... Read more

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  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Making EI Work

    Research from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force

    by Keith Banting, Jon Medow ...
    Series Book 89 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Making EI Work is the result of a panel of distinguished scholars gathered by the Mowat Centre Employment ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Social Inequality in China

    by Yaojun Li, Yanjie Bian ...
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the patterns and trends of socio-economic development and social division in contemporary Chinese society. It discusses the determinants, manifestations and consequences of social inequality in the last 40 years with particular regard to social mobility, educational attainment, social capital, health, labor market position, including employment ... Read more

    $160.99 CAD

  • Poverty and Development in China

    Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

    by Caizhen Lu ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China’s official poverty identification method ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 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