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Women Political Leaders - Breaking The Highest Glass Ceiling

by J. Jensen

60,82€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines the many routes forty or so women have taken to become president or prime minister of their countries and the problems they have encountered once in office.
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State And Market In The Chinese Economy - Essays On Controversial Issues

by P. Nolan

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Provides an examination of the relationship between the state and market in China's economic development over several centuries. Its analysis is situated in the context of debates about technical progress in the pre-modern world and includes factors such as the impact of Western imperialism.
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China'S Economic Reform

by Gao Shangquan

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic structure of the nation. Professor Gao, one of China's leading reformers, examines and authoritatively assesses China's reform over the last fourteen years.
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Banking And Financial Control In Reforming Planned Economies

by Haiqun Yang

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the banking system reforms with particular reference to centrally planned economies. The book reviews the socialist banking reforms and analyses their financial problems. Employing a critical exposition of banking theories, it assesses current financial disorders and takes issue with some established theories.
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Agricultural Reforms And Grain Production In China

by Shujie Yao

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 This book explains how policy changes affect farmers' production incentives and efficiency of resource allocation within and outside agriculture in modern China, paying particular attention to the effects of technical inputs on yield and efficiency of spatial crop production pattern.
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Chinese State In The Era Of Economic Reform - The Road To Crisis

by Gordon White

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 An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society. It investigates the political and social consequences of an economic strategy which aims to introduce markets into a centrally-planned socialist economy.
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Agricultural Development In Jiangnan, 1620-1850

by Li Bozhong

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 For centuries the Yangzi delta has acted as the locomotive of China''s economic growth. This book examines the surprising phenomenon of a long period of economic growth from 1620 to 1850 in the traditional agriculture of this extremely densely populated area, when no new land was available and no major technological breakthroughs occurred. Intensification of farming and rationalizations of resources saw an optimum model of peasant family economy become the norm. The contrast with western patterns of development improves our understanding of China''s economic performance, past and present.
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Reworking China'S Proletariat

by Sally Sargeson

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 China''s workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism. Sally Sargeson presents a new theoretical analysis of the impact of capitalism and state power on social identities, employment conditions and workplace organization. Her study draws upon an unprecedented level of empirical research from case studies of the labour market and employment conditions in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. The book will interest students of Chinese political economy, socialist transition, working class formation and the representation of collective identity.
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Food Security And Economic Reform - The Challenges Facing China’S Grain Marketing System

by A. Watson e C. Findlay

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The development of China''s grain marketing system is a crucial part of economic reform. The focus of this book is on the development of the domestic marketing system. Issues examined include the pace and content of reform so far, the development of wholesale markets, and the growth of a complementary financial system. Of special interest is the impact of marketing reform on regional trade patterns in the domestic market and implications for China''s international grain trade policy.
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Reform And Development In Rural China

by Du Runsheng

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 The 19 speechs in this volume explain many aspects of China's market-based rural economic reforms. The book includes an introductory chapter describing the history of rural economic policy in the People's Republic of China, notes by Du Runsheng and a glossary of important Marxist and Chinese economic terms.
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Economic Development Of China - A Comparison With The Japanese Experience

by Ryoshin Minami e Trans Wenran Jiang

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book identifies that problems that China must face to develop its economy and elucidates the structural deficiencies which lay behind these problems. The book also analyzes China's present economic situation and, where possible, provides prescriptions for solving its problems by comparing it with the Japanese development experience.
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How Chinese Managers Learn - Management And Industrial Training In China

by Malcolm Warner

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 How do Chinese managers learn to do their job? Management training has become a vital necessity for China under the economic reforms. This book, based on empirical study of the institutions involved, is the first to examine in depth the industrial and management training in China. It covers the period 1979 to 1989 during the ''Open Door'' policy operated by the government. A period marked by the modernization attempts of industry.
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China: From Revolution To Reform

by Sheng Hua, Xiaopeng Luo e Xiejung Zhang

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 As senior advisers to the Chinese leaders the authors expose the undercurrents pushing the leaders to the brink of economic reform, and the obvious achievements of the early reform as well as the latent seeds for the later crisis.
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Productivity And Growth In Chinese Agriculture

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. An analysis of the sources of this miraculous growth is the focus of the present volume. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance. This book adds to the literature and contributes to the current debates on food security and rural development.
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Industrialization And China'S Rural Modernization

by Dong Fureng

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book analyses China's historical experience of industrialization. It is intended that the book will increase understanding of China's socio-economic development as well as contributing to wider debates in the theory of economic development.
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How The Chinese Economy Works - A Multiregional Overview

by Rongxing Guo

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 An authoritative analysis of the result of China''s economic transformation. The book is important in focusing on regional comparisons and differences within China. The author analyzes the uneven distribution of natural and human resources and probes into the evolution of economic systems and policies from which differing regional economic performances have resulted. A multiregional comparison of the Chinese economy is conducted in terms of macroeconomic index, real living standard, and regional inequality. The author studies the possibilities and conditions for Chinese economic optimisations. Lastly, the author provides statistical information and economic analyses of the greater China area.
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Management Decision-Making In Chinese Enterprises

by Yuan Lu

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 This book is a seminal contribution to decision making theory through its study of management decision making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries.
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Rural Enterprises In China

by Andrew Watson, Christopher Findlay e Harry X. Wu

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 How and why did the rural enterprise sector get so big in China? This book has the answers. That sector is owned and operated by rural communities. The book explains why these enterprises have been growing so fast, and it explores the implications of their growth.
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China'S Export Miracle - Origins, Results And Prospects

by Noel Tracy, Thomas Chan e Zhu Wenhui

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 The book also examines the dynamics behind Japan's increasing role in China's foreign trade in the late 1990s and the growing trade friction between China and the United States, which it argues is produced by the failure of the latter to recognise the dynamics of China's export growth.
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Enterprise Reforms In A Centrally Planned Economy - The Case Of The Chinese Bicycle Industry

by Zhang Xun-Hai

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 Seeks to analyze China's industrial reform in the 1980s by examining the Chinese bicycle industry. It sets the changes since 1978 into historical perspective by giving an account of the development of this industry.
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Intersectoral Resource Flows And China'S Economic Development

by Yumin Sheng

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 This book makes a survey of the methodologies used in previous quantitative analysis of intersectoral resource flows (IRF). Based on the discussion of the defects of much existing work, an attempt is made to improve the measurement of IRF.
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Labour And The Failure Of Reform In China

by Michael Korzec

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Examines the policies of labour reform in China, with particular reference to occupational inheritance, flexible labour efficiency wage and enterprise behaviour.
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Politics Of Wage Policy In Post-Revolutionary China

by Akio Takahara

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an analysis of the political processes involved in China''s wage policy. Akio Takahara illuminates the political conflicts and interests among national policy makers, local authorities, grassroots units and various socio-economic groups, and identifies constraints on wage reform.
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Price Reform In China, 1979-86

by Jiann-Jong Guo

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 This text investigates the characteristics, achievements and difficulties in reforming the producer and procurement pricing system in China. It attempts to show how the price system moved from a high degree of control in a rigid command economy to partial control in a more decentralized economy.
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