R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy … through four sectors (high-speed trains, aeronautics, clean energy, IT) and discuss its potential impact on the world industry. …

Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. It encompasses economic, social and cultural dimensions. In the fourteenth century …, Genoa, Venice, Barcelona were global places, controlling world-wide economic flows. This supremacy derived from the … Mediterranean maritime world is how borders dematerialized, how flows started to define space and how different stages or levels of …

This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual …

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

This paper analyses the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …

This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households … rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual …

Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past thirty-five years, poverty has not been fully … both the challenges and achievements of pro-poor programs in China. Using original household survey data, we first …