Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rural–urban Division -- Chapter Two: Literature Review -- Chapter Three: Policies and Institutions Concerning Resource Flow -- Chapter Four: Methodology -- Chapter Five: Peasants’ View -- Chapter Six: Officials’ View -- Chapter Seven: Quantitative Results...

Chapter 1 Rural Households and Generational Evolution -- Chapter 2 Transition in Household Economic Structure and Its Origin -- Chapter 3 Farmland, Farmland Transfer and The Origins -- Chapter 4 Evolution of Saving and Lending Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Imbalanced Economic Development and Its Origin...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty -- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China -- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty --...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Impact of Race and Inequality on Human Capital Formation in Latin America during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 3: Education and Inequality in North America in the Long Term with Special Reference to the United States -- Chapter 4:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Turning Points in Equality and Wealth Gaps -- 3. Wealth Gap Index Construction and Data Analysis -- 4. Multiple Equality Indexes Related to the Wealth Gap -- 5. Analysis of the Turning Point of Wealth Gap Index and Economic Growth -- 6. Wealth Gap and Social...

Chapter 1: Migration to the Middle East: Issues and Prospects -- Chapter 2: Demographic Dividend in the Middle East: An Empirical Assessment -- Chapter 3: Egyptian Labour Migration in the Arab Middle East -- Chapter 4: Vagaries in the Management of Migrant Domestic Workers from the Philippines:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Global Human Migration -- 3. Slavery - The Ancient and Medieval Periods -- 4. Slavery in the New World - the Saga of Native Indians -- 5. Slavery in the New World - The Saga of Black Africans -- 6. Indentured Servitude - The Saga of the Indians and the Chinese -- 7....

Die Herausgeber wollen mit diesem Band ein Neu-Denken von auf Wachstum basierenden Wirtschaftsformen und damit einhergehenden Gesellschaftsformen anregen, mögliche Alternativen zu traditionellen Wachstumsdebatten aufzeigen und neue Formen der Organisation von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zur...

Dieses Buch untersucht an Fallbeispielen jahrhundertealter Familienbetriebe in Japan, welche Bedingungen und besonderen Grundwerte ihren betrieblichen Fortbestand fördern. Wenig überraschend finden sich diese goldenen Regeln und Maximen auch in der Arbeitskultur und Wertorientierung der...

The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their territorial communities. It is also a precondition for national and local policies that aim to better the economic base and quality of life for...