debates on the regulation of foreign investment. Particular attention has been placed on investment by state-owned enterprises … (SOEs), driven in part by public suspicion about investment from China, which has been the largest source of SOE capital …

Industrial disposal of effluents on land and subsequent pollution of groundwater and soil of surrounding farmlands is a … effluents on land, which has limited capacity to assimilate the pollution load, has led to groundwater pollution. Ground water … and/or river water the impact of pollution on livelihood was minimised. Since the local administration is supplying …

industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …

, competition and the reform of state regulation are key themes of donor aid programmes, notably those of the World Bank. This paper … provides an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation on the performance of the … generating sector and capacity utilisation. The main conclusions are that on their own privatisation and regulation do not lead …

of prudential regulation, and continued financial market development practiced by most Asian EMEs over the past …