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The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China
The evidence presented in this volume indicates that the distribution of income in China is less unequal than in many develo** countries. The Gini coefficient in 1988 was 0.34 in rural areas and 0.23 in urba...
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The effectiveness of differential pricing on route choice
The use of differential pricing as a means of traffic management has been advocated by specialists in the field of transport for quite some time. Because of technical and political reasons, a full-scale pricin...
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SMART: simulation model for activities, resources and travel
This paper proposes the development of an activity-based model of travel that integrates household activities, land use patterns, traffic flows, and regional demographics. The model is intended as a replacemen...
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Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in China
For many foreign investors, one of the main attractions of China is its enormous market size and the even greater potential for future growth (See Chapter 2). With the Chinese economy growing at about 10 per c...
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Conclusions: Foreign Investment Environment in China Under the Open Door Policy
For many foreign investors, develo** a comprehensive understanding of China poses a major challenge. China is a complex society, by virtue of its deeply embedded and multi-layered cultural heritage, its long...
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China’s Main Attractions to Foreign Investors
This chapter examines the main attractions of China to foreign investors in the context of the contemporary world economy. Three key issues are addressed here. First, the process of globalization in the evolvi...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Hard Environment
The last two chapters examined the main attractions of China to foreign investors under the contemporary world economic climate and the evolution of China’s open door policy in the aspect of FDI. In the next t...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Soft Environment (II)
In the last chapter, the historical, political and social backgrounds of China’s reform and opening up to the outside world were examined, and a key factor for doing business in China - guanxi (connections and ne...
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The Economic and Social Influences of FDI in China
China’s opening up has three key objectives: attracting foreign investment, promoting foreign trade, and introducing advanced technologies, skills and management techniques.1 Of these, attracting FDI is probably ...
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Introduction: Foreign Investment in China under the Open Door Policy
Since the implementation of the economic reform in late 1978, China has achieved impressive results, including rapid economic growth, major structural changes and unprecedented improvement in living standards ...
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Opening the Door to FDI: The Evolution of Relevant Policies in China
In the last chapter, the main attractions of China to foreign investors in the context of the contemporary world economy were examined. This chapter identifies the key steps of China’s opening up to foreign in...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Soft Environment (I)
Compared with the hard environment for FDI, the soft environment is much more difficult to evaluate because it comprises a wide range of intangible factors. These factors are examined in detail in this and the...
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Interrelational Multipliers for the US Economy: An Application to Welfare Reform
More than twenty years after its publication, Ken’ichi Miyazawa’s (1976) classic monograph, Input-Output Analysis and the Structure of Income Distribution, stands as the major work in the field. Although several ...
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Construction of an Input-Output Income Distribution Matrix for the U.S.
In this chapter, we explain the construction of a set of disaggregated personal income accounts to be incorporated into a 1987 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of the U.S. The accounts are disaggregated accordin...
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New models for financing and managing highways: asset-based road corporations in China
The China International Engineering Consulting Corporation undertook, in 1997, the study of Viability of Asset Based Road Corporations in China as part of the World Bank's transport sector program review. The ...
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China: A Giant with an Achilles Heel?
Since the financial turmoil broke in Thailand in July 1997, triggering a financial crisis across South East Asia, China, the only major country isolated from the financial crisis in East Asia, has remained the...
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A test of inter-modal performance measures for transit investment decisions
Choices among alternative transit capital investments are often complex and politically controversial. There is renewed interest in the use of performance indicators to assist in making rational and defensible...
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The Mathematical Theory of an Enhanced Nonequilibrium Traffic Flow Model
This paper establishes the mathematical theory of an enhanced nonequilibrium traffic flow model. The innovation of the model is that it addresses the anisotropic feature of traffic flows. We show rigorously th...
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When Should Providers of Recreational Land be Immune from Liability?
This article examines statutes that limit the liability of landowners who open their property for recreational use. We ask whether landowner immunity promotes efficient provision by owners and efficient entry ...
