<i> Guangdong, China: A laboratory for the study of the new industry </i> (by Marco Bellandi and Marco Di Tommaso) - ABSTRACT: This paper illustrates some results emerging from an ongoing research on the industries growing in one of the areas of highest economic development in China, that is Guangdong...

Pharmaceutical Economics encompasses the economics of the pharmaceutical industry but it is far more than that. Because pharmaceuticals have an important impact on public health, government actions are necessarily involved, which have a major effect on market outcomes. An important example is...

<em>Industrial development policies in southern China: the specialised towns programme</em> - The aim of this article is to provide an updated picture of the ongoing policies implemented by the government of the Guangdong Province to foster the development (and the institutional acknowledgement) of a...