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  • The Welfare System of Universal Integration in China

    by Tiankui Jing ...
    Translated by Mei Du ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the concepts: the welfare system of universal integration and the welfare mode of universal integration. In this book, the author explores the foundation of fair baseline about the universal integration on the basis of critically inheriting the domestic and international social welfare theories, comprehensively explains the connotation, subject and application of fair baseline ... Read more

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    Miss Thornfield's Daring Bargain

    A Victorian Historical Romance

    by Addy Du Lac ...
    Narrated by Mei Mei MacLeod ...
    Series series The Troublemakers Trilogy

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    8 hours 19 min

    Caught between his family and convictions, can a daring miss change everything?As the daughter of an old wealthy merchant family, Ada was looking forward to this London season with her friends, but all her plans grind to a halt when her beloved older brother, Richard goes missing. Basil Thompson is the only thing standing between herself, what remains of her family and a life of isolated ... Read more

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  • Managing Development

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    Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to external shocks and volatility.As a consequence, stakeholders at every level of the development and ... Read more

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  • Public Finance In China: Reform And Growth For A Harmonious Society

    This book brings together analysis and insights from high-level Chinese policy-makers and prominent international scholars in addressing the key challenges China is facing in maintaining rapid growth and achieving the Government's stated goal of creating a harmonious society. It analyzes such key policy issues as: public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal reform and revenue and ... Read more

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  • Economic and Social Transformation in China

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    by Angang Hu ...
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    The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges and opportunities for Chinese development and the government’s thinking on economic and social ... Read more

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  • China 2049

    Economic Challenges of a Rising Global Power

    How will China reform its economy as it aspires to become the next economic superpower?It's clear that China is the world's next economic superpower. But what isn't so clear is how China will get there by the middle of this century. It now faces tremendous challenges such as fostering innovation, dealing with ageing problem and coping with a less accommodative global environment.In this book, ... Read more

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  • China's Business Reforms

    Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy

    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to ... Read more

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  • China's Great Economic Transformation

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  • Going Beyond Aid

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    Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for structural transformation, and is hence ineffective. In this book, Justin Yifu Lin and Yan ... Read more

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