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“yuanlin wei”

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  • China’s Labor Market in the Transition

    The Evolution From Segmentation to Integration

    by Chen Ying ...
    Translated by Simin Tan, Yuanlin Wei ...
    This book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ultimate engine driving the fastest urbanization the world has ever seen. Today, the country faces a series of new challenges as it tries to address problems of unemployment and under-employment. These include population ageing, automation, the increasing ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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  • Carrots, Sticks and Sermons

    Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation

    Edited by Marie‑Louise Bemelmans‑Videc, Ray C. Rist, Evert Vedung ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy instruments are classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation plays in the ... Read more

    $87.99 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

  • New Public Management

    An Introduction

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • How Reform Worked in China

    The Transition from Plan to Market

    by Yingyi Qian ...
    A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.As China has transformed itself from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, economists have tried to understand and interpret the success of Chinese reform. As the Chinese economist Yingyi Qian explains, there are two ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Accounting and Finance in China (RLE Accounting)

    Edited by John Blake, Simon Gao ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Accounting
    The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world. This book, the result of an international symposium on Chinese accounting and financial management, assesses the little-known accounting scene in China which up until 1978 remained behind closed doors.Divided into four sections, the volume covers:Chinese perspectives on accountingthe business and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Energy Efficiency

    Lessons Learned from Success Stories

    by Gary Stuggins, Alexander Sharabaroff, Yadviga Semikolenova ...
    Series series Europe and Central Asia Reports
    Energy efficiency is an important factor in an economy, since it helps meet energy needs, decrease costs, and lower environmental impacts. A review of the evolution of energy intensity in European and Former Soviet Union countries indicates a positive trend: high-energy-intensity countries have now reached the level of medium-energy-intensity economies 15 years earlier, and in the same period, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Carbon Markets

    Design and Diffusion

    Edited by Jørgen Wettestad, Lars Gulbrandsen ...
    Series series Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy
    Carbon markets are developing and expanding around the world, but how and to what extent is their design shaped by learning and interaction between them? How do these markets function and what is the role of design?Carrying out a ground-breaking analysis of their design and diffusion, this book covers all the major carbon market systems and processes around the world: the EU, RGGI, California, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Time, Communication and Global Capitalism

    by Wayne Hope ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he cross-relates four epistemes of time - epochality, time reckoning, temporality and coevalness – with four materializations of time – hegemony, conflict, crisis and rupture. Using this framework allows Hope to argue that global capitalism is epochally distinctive, riven by time conflicts ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State

    by Wei Cui ...
    Series series Cambridge Tax Law Series
    On subjects ranging from trade to democratization, there has lately been a wave of laments about China's development belying Western expectations. Yet these disappointments often come with misunderstandings of the very institutions that China was expected to adopt. Chinese taxation offers a sharp illustration. When China introduced a tax system suited for the market economy, it fully intended tax ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Regional Integration Manual

    Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

    Edited by Philippe De Lombaerde, Renato Flores, Lelio Iapadre, Michael Schulz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The Regional Integration Manual brings together different methods for monitoring and analysing regional integration processes in a systematic way. Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, it seeks to provide officials in regional organisations, researchers in think tanks, academics and students worldwide with an accessible set of both quantitative and qualitative tools, useful in their day-to-day ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading

    Kyoto, Copenhagen, and beyond

    Edited by David Freestone, Charlotte Streck ...
    Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum. This new book examines all the main legal and policy issues which are raised by emissions trading and carbon finance. It covers not only the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms but also the regional emission trading scheme in the EU and emerging schemes in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The Parties to the 1992 UN ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD