This book describes and explains the remarkably large rural-urban divide in economic well-being that exists in China, tracing the root causes, present effects, and future implications for the increasingly marketized Chinese economy. It uses the rigorous analysis and empirical methodology of modern economics.

The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Business & Money

Knight, John

Song, Lina

Economics

Clarendon Press

From an administered labor system under central planning, the Chinese economy has moved towards a labor market. This book reviews the progress that has been made over two decades of urban economic reform. It analyzes the underlying political economy that has both induced and impeded reform, and examines the economic changes that have unleashed market forces. Based on frontier research using specially designed and collected survey data, the book documents the rising wage inequality, the greater rewards for skills, the growing wage segmentation based on labor immobility and profit-sharing, the emergence of serious urban unemployment, and the competition from the rising tide of rural migrants. China does not yet have a functioning labor market: the book concludes by examining the prospects for its creation.

Towards a Labour Market in China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Oxford University Press

From an administered labor system under central planning, the Chinese economy has moved towards a labor market. This book reviews the progress that has been made over two decades of urban economic reform. It analyzes the underlying political economy that has both induced and impeded reform, and examines the economic changes that have unleashed market forces. Based on frontier research using specially designed and collected survey data, the book documents the rising wage inequality, the greater rewards for skills, the growing wage segmentation based on labor immobility and profit-sharing, the emergence of serious urban unemployment, and the competition from the rising tide of rural migrants. China does not yet have a functioning labor market: the book concludes by examining the prospects for its creation.

A Japanese conservationist group has launched a campaign for the reintroduction of the wolf in Japan, arguing that the wolf would be the savior of upland areas of Japan which are suffering from wildlife pestilence. This book examines the reintroduction proposal by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in one of the candidate areas, and shows that conflicts with wildlife are inextricably bound up with social conflict among people, and that wildlife pestilence must therefore be understood in terms of its symbolic, as well as material dimensions.

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

How has the Chinese economy managed to grow at such a remarkable rate--no less than ten per cent per annum--for over three decades? This well-integrated book combines economic theory, empirical estimation, and institutional analysis to address one of the most important questions facing contemporary economists. A common thread that runs throughout the book is the underlying political economy: why China became a "developmental state," and how it has maintained itself as a "developmental state".The book examines the causal processes at work in the evolution of China's institutions and policies. It estimates cross-country and cross-province growth equations to shed light on the proximate, and some of the underlying determinants of the growth rate. It explores important consequences of China's growth, posing a series of key questions, such as: is the economy running out of unskilled labor; why and how has inequality risen; has economic growth raised happiness; what are the social costs of the overriding priority accorded to growth objectives; can China continue to grow rapidly, or will the maturing economy, or the macroeconomic imbalances, or financial crisis, or social instability, bring it to an end?Based mainly on original research, this book will be of interest to growth economists, development economists, transition economists, China specialists, policy-makers, and indeed all those who are intrigued by the Chinese growth phenomenon.

China's Remarkable Economic Growth

Ding, Sai

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Finance

Abbott Properties

Newnes Building Services Pocket Book

Engineering & Transportation

Prentice, Andrew

JONES, W.P.

Engineering

Routledge

This pocket book is packed full of all the reference material that building services students, mid-career engineers and those involved with operating and managing building services are likely to need. It is assumed that the reader has some knowledge of the fundamental physical processes involved in mechanical services. This book guides the reader in their choice of system by giving the principal characteristics of different types of HVAC system. It is also written to take the inexperienced engineer along the difficult path of producing initial theoretical designs and converting them into full working designs. It takes into account the need to rationalise certain aspects of detail design to facilitate modular construction, prefabrication, cleaning, maintenance and save time.

Newnes Building Services Pocket Book (Newnes Pocket Books)

Arts & Photography

Jones MSc CEng FInstE FCIBSE MASHRAE, W.P.

Architecture

Newnes

* How to understand, model and forecast volatility * Applications in investment management, trading strategies and financial engineering * Current research on the key forecasting methods to use in risk management * With contributions from leading academics and professional experts, this book is required reading for anyone who needs to understand the significance and impact of volatility in the financial markets. The book assumes that you have a firm grounding in the key principles and methods of understanding volatility measurement and builds on that knowledge to detail cutting edge modelling and forecasting techniques. It then uses a technical survey to define the different models of volatility and return and explain the different ways to measure risk. The book continues with detail on applications in Financial markets. * If you're an Investment manager you'll find out how to judge your rebalancing decisions in Global Tactical Asset Allocation. If you're a trader you'll learn how to profit by modifying your strategies to account for volatility and identify arbitrage opportunities. If you're a risk manager you'll understand how to measure volatility for Value At Risk and other risk management techniques. Derivatives specialists will be able to use the insights from this book to further understand and improve their pricing models.  · How to understand, model and forecast volatility· Applications in investment management, trading strategies and financial engineering

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets (Quantitative Finance)

Butterworth-Heinemann

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Return Distributions in Finance (Quantitative Finance)

Satchell, Stephen

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The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Towards a Labour Market in China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Towards a Labour Market in China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

China's Remarkable Economic Growth

How to Increase or Build Your Credit Score in One Month: Add Over 100 Points Without The Need of Credit Repair Services

Newnes Building Services Pocket Book

Newnes Building Services Pocket Book (Newnes Pocket Books)

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets (Quantitative Finance)

Return Distributions in Finance (Quantitative Finance)