This interview concerns doing business in China given the rapid changes and industrial development of that country. This report is based on an interview with Robert T. Martin, Managing Director & Regional Executive of BMO Bank of Montreal in June, 2005. Recent federal government financial reform...

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

Cloud manufacturing task scheduling (CMTS) gains widespread attention in the cloud manufacturing (CMfg) community. At present, most related researches are mainly aimed at task-oriented scheduling and there are few researches considering user’ characteristics, like user preferences. In this...