data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign …

drive to build infrastructure in China, where local governments are not allowed to engage in direct market borrowing. UDICs … municipal corporations under the Company Law of the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC). The law does not clarify the relationship …-a-vis UDICs. The Government of China (GOC) agencies expect that the World Bank (WB) Technical Assistance Report (TAR), based on …

the Loess Plateau area. The M&E system for the China Watershed Management Project (CWMP) has been developed on the base of … describe the specific features of and challenges for watershed M&E before chapter five goes into a detailed presentation of the …

China has undergone a profound economic and social transformation as it moves from a centrally-planned to a market …-oriented economy. Land issues are implicated in this ongoing transformation in numerous important ways - as key factors in China …'s quest for economic growth, national food security and social stability; as important influences in the rapid growth of China …

China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation”)—fiscal transfers for environmental … and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent … impacts, and distills broad lessons from China for similar policies globally …

's engagement beyond the GEF was assessed as important given the project's complexity, and its potential to shed light on China …China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental … challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese Government has fully recognized these challenges and is aiming to promote more …