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  • The End of Poverty and the Taming of Inequality

    A Manifesto for Personal and Social Action

    by Xiaoyun Li ...
    Translated by Jin Xu, Jing Gu, Sam Huckstep ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this book, Li Xiaoyun tries to address these questions that attract public attention in today’s China. Drawing on classic and cutting-edge poverty research from political economy, economics and social psychology, Li elaborates on the political and social meanings of China’s recent war on extreme poverty and the institutional set-ups that helped the country successfully escape the poverty trap. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    by Katherine Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.Using case studies, Morton analyzes the relationship between international and local responses to ... Read more

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  • Clean Air at What Cost?

    The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China

    by Denise Sienli van der Kamp ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry. Much of this was achieved through top-down, 'blunt force' solutions, such as forcibly shuttering or destroying polluting factories. This book argues that China's blunt force regulation is actually a sign ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • The Road Towards Common Prosperity

    by Qunhui Huang, Quheng Deng ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book introduces how China plans and implements to achieve the goal of common prosperity. As the internal essential requirement by Chinese social and economic system, common prosperity is a coherent national strategy to combine economic growth and poverty reduction. It explains the path as how to make the "pie" bigger and better, and how to cut and divide the "pie" well . This book also ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Rural Education in China: Policy and Development (1978 - 2018)

    by Wu Zhihui ...
    This book reveals the policy changes and profound transformations in rural education in China over the past 40 years of reform and opening-up.The book emphasizes the need to accurately address the relationship between urban and rural educational development, adopt an integrated urban-rural education mindset, and establish a mechanism for promoting balanced development by linking urban and rural ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Environmental Governance

    Dynamics, Challenges, and Prospects in a Changing Society

    by Bingqiang Ren ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy, analyzing current discussions among various actors and agencies. The book covers a wide range of topics including the gap between national policy goals and their local implementation, cultural and social factors shaping political behavior, legal and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China

    Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Feng Wang ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications.Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by I. Watson, C. Pandey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on both North-South and South-South relations to reveal an understanding of major climate change and climate change management issues through practices and narratives of environmental security in a specific regional context. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rural Livelihoods in China

    Political economy in transition

    Edited by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country’s development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to deepen our understanding of the changes and continuities related to rural livelihoods within the wider ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

    by Monique Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Critical Reflections on Development

    Edited by D. Kingsbury ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Human Capital Development in the People's Republic of China and India

    Achievements, Prospects, and Policy Challenges

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This report was prepared with the primary objective of drawing insights on how Asian economic giants India and the People's Republic of China leveraged education and skills development to advance economic growth. The analysis presented similarities and differences in human capital development strategies and their outcomes that helped define development pathways between the two countries. It also ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus