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Mega-events, Local Economies, and Global Status: What Happened before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

Sun, Jian; Ye, Lin - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 39 (2010) 2, pp. 133-165

Mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics have been used for economic development, urban transformation and global status enhancement. Beijing and Shanghai embraced these purposes when they won the bids for the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo respectively. This article examines...

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Water Scarcity and Allocation in the Tarim Basin: Decision Structures and Adaptations on the Local Level

Thevs, Niels - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 40 (2011) 3, pp. 113-137

Basin, Xinjiang, China. The major water consumer is irrigation agriculture, mainly cotton. As the area under irrigation has …

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Structures and Logic of EP Implementation and Administration in China

Grunow, Dieter - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 40 (2011) 3, pp. 37-75

protection (EP) policies in China. The project focused on local EP in both urban and rural areas. Policy field analysis was used … policy fields. Official EP policies in China today resemble those of other countries – but they are separating issues and … responsibilities, making local implementation very demanding. 2) China lags behind in its willingness and ability to implement these …

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China’s Evolving Behaviour in Africa and the Options of Cooperation with Europe

Holslag, Jonathan - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 40 (2011) 4, pp. 3-16

Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 4/2011: China's Evolving Africa Policy: The Limits of Socialization …

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Streamlining Local Behaviour Through Communication, Incentives and Control: A Case Study of Local Environmental Policies in China

Heberer, Thomas; Senz, Anja - In: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell 40 (2011) 3, pp. 77-112

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 …

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Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy

Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...

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Factors Influencing International Joint Venture Performance in China

XIAOSONG, ZHENG; JINMING, ZHANG - In: Annals - Economic and Administrative Series - 5 (2011) 1, pp. 167-184

International Joint Venture (IJV) has been a common organizational mode and played an increasingly important role on sino-foreign trade businesses. While a sizeable research on IJVs has been taken since 1970s, studies on sino-foreign IJVs are lack of authentic papers and an integrated...

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Environmental Productivity in China

Managi, Shunsuke; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Economics Bulletin 17 (2004) 2, pp. 1-10

Environmental problems are threatening China's sustainable future. China began implementation of several environmental …

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A structural break analysis of inflation dynamics in china

Minamikawa, Takanori - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 12-12

This paper uses the structural break method to analyze inflation dynamics in China between 1987 and 2008. The analysis …

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China en América Latina: Reflexiones sobre las relaciones transpacíficas

Creutzfeldt, Benjamin - Universidad Externado de Colombia, Facultad de …

China, desde su reforma y apertura en 1979, ha logrado posicionarse como uno de los mayores poderes económicos en el … participación china en las economías de América Latina se ha convertido en motivo tanto de esperanza como de preocupación. China en … América Latina: Reflexiones sobre las relaciones transpacíficas reúne a destacados académicos de China, Estados Unidos, México …

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