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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities … agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
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Housing policies in Hong Kong, China and the People's Republic of China
Li, Victor Jing - 2016
This paper analyzes the housing markets and housing policies in Hong Kong, China and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Both markets face housing affordability problems due to limited land supply, for which the solutions vary considerably. Hong Kong, China has adopted a railway and property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653768
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Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building-Height Limits
Brueckner, Jan K.; Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen; Zhang, Junfu - 2016
FAR regulation across Chinese cities, and additional evidence suggests that stringency depends on certain city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480438
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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China
Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping … energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the key to meeting its proposed carbon intensity target in 2020 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398442
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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308440
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Toward efficient urban form in China
Webster, Douglas; Bertaud, Alain; Jianming, Cai; … - 2010
Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land conservation; reduction in energy use, conventional pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions; and human time savings. Issues addressed include increased scatter on the periphery,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280121
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Toward efficient urban form in China
Webster, Douglas; Bertaud, Alain; Jianming, Cai; … - 2010
Land efficiency in urban China is examined, using Tianjin as a case study, from the perspective of agricultural land conservation; reduction in energy use, conventional pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions; and human time savings. Issues addressed include increased scatter on the periphery,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663061
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The system of revenue sharing and fiscal transfers in China
Wang, Xiao; Herd, Richard - 2013
The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a multi-level government structure that shares national tax revenues through a system of tax sharing and transfers, and divides spending assignments and responsibilities. Local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711209
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Policies for inclusive urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - 2013
since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities … agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231018