China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World … Values Survey data depicts China to be a high-trust, achievement oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures … guanxi in China, which results into their re-conceptualization as Ego-centric networking and relational collectivism, based …

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades … restrictions, China's relative exports (to the US, Argentina, Japan, Korea, the UK, Germany, and Spain) will be compared to Mexico …

Regional GDP per capita disparities between the coastal and interior provinces of China seemto be a bugaboo the Chinese … government cannot get rid of. This paper shows that there areagglomerative forces within China which emerge from the unbalanced … inequitywithin China. We show that in the case of agglomerative forces the hukou system can reduce disparities while a reduction of …

im Rahmen der "Riester Rente" diskutiert. Länder wie Singapur, Südafrika, China und die USA haben diese neue Form der … "Riester Rente". Countries like Singapore, South Africa, China and the USA have already introduced Medical Savings Accounts or …

crowding-effects in the Chinese economy. Against the background of the peculiar characteristics of China's FDI-inflows the …

ostasiatische Beziehungen sowie in weitere transnationale Beziehungen eines 'China Circle'. Die Kontinuität des chinesischen … develop a well-founded characterization of China as a specific variant of capitalism a market-liberal, competition … relations within a 'China Circle.' Nevertheless, the continuity of the Chinese trajectory is currently threatened by the crisis …

This paper investigates poverty alleviation efforts in China and the nature of governmententerprise partnerships there …-based obstacles in low-income markets. In China, local and central governments are owners of rare and valuable resources, thus …-income market in China, of which two cases in the agricultural and telecommunication sector are studied in depth. …

-economic development in China remains highly uneven both sociologically and regionally. Conventional wisdom holds that the prevailing …