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Approaches And Perspectives In The Studies Of China's Urban Poverty, Zhiming Cheng
Approaches And Perspectives In The Studies Of China's Urban Poverty, Zhiming Cheng
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The paper reviews some research on urban poverty in China. This topic began to attract academic attention in mid- 1990s. In the marketization, the old socialist system in China, which included full employment and comprehensive social welfare for urban citizens, has been replaced by an emerging labor market and a socialized and partially privatized social security. The time lag between the old and establishing systems has thrown a large number of retrenched state workers and migrant workers into poverty and then concentrated the poor in particular areas or communities of city. There is impressive progress on identifying and measuring poverty, …
The Development Of Private Businesses In China, Guibin Zhang, Zhong Qin
The Development Of Private Businesses In China, Guibin Zhang, Zhong Qin
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
China’s economic development since 1978 has been fuelled largely by a new private sector that has depended on entrepreneurship. In 1978 the private sector virtually did not exist. In 2005 it was estimated that about one-quarter of gross domestic product (GDP) was produced by the domestic private sector. However, the academic discourse on China’s private sector is lagging behind the sector’s actual development. Before the market reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China relied on state entrepreneurship. When the model of state entrepreneurship began to run out of energy, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turned to private entrepreneurship as …