The paper examines recent political and social developments in the People's Republic of China. It highlights some of …

, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining … Chinese firms' financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2011: Environmental Governance in China: New Developments and …

This article describes how China uses evaluation ratings and monitoring as incentives in order to foster the … implementation of environmental policies at the local level. It is argued that decentralisation in China leaves room for actors at … intergovernmental communication, incentives and control. Accordingly, decentralisation in China exhibits a specific design which leaves …

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die bestehende Zusammenarbeit des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen mit China bzw. den … der Frage nach, mit welchen konkreten Maßnahmen die Attraktivität des Standortes NRW gegenüber China gesteigert werden …This publication traces the cooperation between North Rhine-Westphalia and China and elaborates on recommendations to …