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Development Economics
International Economics
**zu Wang
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Contemporary Employability Norms for Guest-Facing Hospitality Workers: Some Empirical Evidence During Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted industries and now poses uncertainties regarding the skills necessary for employability in a peri- and post-pandemic landscape. With limited options to work remotely, the ho...
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A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Container Ports in China and the Implications for Their Development
Prompted by a phenomenal growth in trade over the last decade, China’s container ports have been increasing in both number and importance. Within the Asian market sector, container ports in the Chinese mainlan...
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Introduction
In the process of China’s market-oriented reforms, the private sector is undoubtedly an important driving force for regional economic development and urbanization. Urbanization is also an important carrier for .....
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The Transformation/Upgrading of the Private Sector and the Road of Ecological Urbanization
Chinese development is facing the dual pressures of environment deterioration and resources exhaustion, the extensive economic growth model has to be abandoned, and the intensive development road of low energy...
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The Role of Public Finance in Pushing Forward the New Type of Urbanization
City is an important spatial carrier for economic activities. In the past more than 30 years, urbanization has greatly promoted China’s economic development. It is certain that urbanization is and will stay th...
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Standardizing the Financial System and Stimulating the Regional Economic Development
World economic recession caused by the subprime mortgage crisis is still continuing. China, as an emerging market economy, has also been affected. Although its main financial sectors such as banking, securitie...
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Impacts of Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in China: The Case of China’s Experience in the Wenchuan Earthquake
Due to complicated climatic and geographic conditions, China remains severely vulnerable to frequent, wide-scale natural disasters. We analyzed the impact of natural disasters on human security, agriculture sa...
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Subsidiary Survival of Multinational Enterprises in China: An Analysis of Nordic Firms
Internationalisation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) has received considerable attention in the international business (IB) literature in the past decades. Survival of MNEs’ subsidiaries is of great intere...
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Private Sector Development and China’s Regional Urbanization: A Survey
The rapid development of the private sector is a significant force for promoting Chinese market development and urbanization. According to statistics, urbanization level is naturally high in the cities and reg...
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Urbanization and Economic Transition in Regional Economic Development
During the last 30 years of reform and opening up, the development of regional economy and urbanization are the main characteristics in the process of marketization in China, and are also the motivation of con...
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The Private Sector and the Traditional Marine Industries Revitalization in Zhejiang Province
Since the reform and opening up, the private economy has played a decisive role in regional development and urbanization in Zhejiang. There are many massive clusters, the specific markets, specialized industri...
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China’s Labor Shortage and Institutional Loss of the Social Security System for Migrant Workers: An Analysis
In the past more than 30 years, surplus labor have been flooding the rural areas, migrating to the cities and working in the industrial sectors. This is an important factor that has been promoting China’s sust...
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Do Foreign Ownership Modes Matter for FDI Spillovers?
The welfare-enhancing role of spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) in a host country generates significant interests and debates among policymakers, long after a wide range of regulatory changes in ...
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The Concept of Private Sector Development and Urbanization
In the process of China’s market-oriented reforms, the private sector is undoubtedly an extremely important driving force for regional economic development and urbanization. Certainly, urbanization itself is a...
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The Imbalance in Regional Economic Development in China and Its Reasons
Over the past 30 years, the per capita income in China has increased by nearly ten-fold. Still, the one fact that cannot be disputed is that economic development disparity in China has been growing through the...
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Breaking through the Constraints of Administrative Divisions and Expanding the Spatial Development of Metropolitan Economy
In order to fit the need of regional economic development and progress of industrialization and urbanization, China’s administrative divisions have been accordingly and constantly adjusted. During the transiti...
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Literature on China’s OFDI
China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is a new phenomenon, and studies related on this issue are largely underdeveloped. Existing descriptive and empirical studies generally conclude that China’s OF...
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Policy Implications and Conclusions
This book deals with a series of important issues on China’s OFDI. The case studies, Chinalco and Geely, are presented to demonstrate the difficulty of and experiences about Chinese MNCs to become global. In t...
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Introduction
China has achieved great economic success since the launch of the ‘Open Door’ policy in 1979. Up to 2009, China’s annual average growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.9 per cent, which is around fo...
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Does China’s OFDI Displace OECD’s OFDI?
In the foregoing two chapters, we have studied China’s outward FDI (OFDI) by examining the underlying motivations and the locational determinants in a static framework, and by investigating the dynamic adjustm...
