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1988

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Infant Mortality-Fertility Debate: Some International Evidence, Abdur Chowdhury Jan 1988

The Infant Mortality-Fertility Debate: Some International Evidence, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Debt, Policy Reform And Poverty Alleviation In Developing Countries, Anne O. Krueger Jan 1988

Debt, Policy Reform And Poverty Alleviation In Developing Countries, Anne O. Krueger

Clemens Lecture Series

No abstract provided.


'Small Profits': Strukturmerkmale Und Entwicklungsprobleme Der Urbanen Individualwirtschaft In Der Vr China, Wolfgang Jamann, Thomas Menkhoff Jan 1988

'Small Profits': Strukturmerkmale Und Entwicklungsprobleme Der Urbanen Individualwirtschaft In Der Vr China, Wolfgang Jamann, Thomas Menkhoff

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This article intends to analyse recent structural patterns, development problems and the reasons for rehabilitation of the urban private economy in the People’s Republic of China since 1978. The authors start from the thesis that the so-called “private sector” in China is not comparable with its “out”-differentiated counterpart in Western industrial countries, but is interlaced, in a complex way, with informal, partly illegitimate activities, interpersonal relation-networks (“guanxi”) or economic transactions of state/collective factories. The article illustrates the subordinate situation of the individual labourers in terms of their political regulation by (sometimes restrictive) licence procedures, taxes and fees; resource supply problems …