Since China's Tax-Sharing System Reform in 1994, the so-called “Chinese-Style Fiscal Federalism” has been formed, and the issues of conditional grants and unfunded mandates have become essential elements in China's central-subnational governments' relation. The defects of legislations in...

This paper investigates poverty alleviation efforts in China and the nature of governmententerprise partnerships there. We argue that firms partnering central and local governments can be an effective strategy to overcome resource-based obstacles in low-income markets. In China, local and...

China is a country that has a large number of minorities, who live in specific regions which are mainly located in Middle and West China. They are abundant in natural resources and are of general importance for China in strategic and ecological terms. Minorities live in relatively compact...