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The Effect Of China's Economic Reform Program On The Employment Structure In China's Urban Areas, Feng Xu, Scott Fausti, Dwight Adamson, H. Kim

Economics Staff Paper Series

A review of China's economic and political reforms since 1978 is provided and then linked to structural change in China's urban labor force as a result of the reform process. Analysis of data on urban labor allocation in China from 1978-97 indicates labor is being reallocated from the public sector to the private sector at a very rapid pace. The data indicates the urban labor has doubled and employment in the private sector has increased from nearly zero to a little over 30% in a 20 year period. The data also suggest that Chinese estimates of urban employment and unemployment …

Collections & Connections, Elisabeth Knight, Jack Montgomery

Collections & Connections

Collections & Connections is a newsletter of Western Kentucky University Libraries periodically featuring its major events. This Fall 2000 issue highlights a librarian's visit to China, a sheet music collection, the New Kentuckians art project, the new development officer Robbin Taylor, African American Folk Art in KY Museum, a fund for the access to the Union Shakers materials, Bellsouth Community Internet Workshops, Hascal Haile, reception of Canadian Studies Grant, the Museum Advisory Board, the third annual Book Fest, a Japanese Sister City Library agreement, archives available via the Internet, the first "Far Away Places" program, and an introduction to the …

Incentives And Corruption In Chinese Economic Reform, Chengze, Simon Fan, Herschel I. Grossman

Centre for Public Policy Studies : CPPS Working Paper Series

This paper argues that, given the legacy of Chinese communism and its political structure, corruption, together with the threat of punishment for corruption and the selective enforcement of this threat, serves as a method of compensation that both satisfies the political objectives of the Communist Party and provides an effective inducement to local officials to promote economic reform.

Corporatism And Civil Society In The People's Republic Of China : Empirical Evidence And Theoretical Implications, Yiu Chung Wong, Che Po Chan

CAPS Working Paper Series

This paper raises serious doubts about the theme that depicts “China as a corporatist system”, and argues that, although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is truly loosening its control over the state enterprises, it still maintains its formal authority and is still playing a leading role in the industrial system. A clarification of the notion is timely in view of the conceptual ambiguity involved. Corporatism could be understood as a set of structures, which link society with the state; in other words, it could be studied as a broader problem of interrelationships between state and society.

United States, China, Taiwan: A Precarious Triangle, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The economic, political, military, and environmental implications of a growing China are addressed.

Legal Eligibility Of Taiwan's Accession To Gatt/Wto, Hui-Wan Cho

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

The Association Of South East Asian Nations' Confidence And Security Building With The People's Republic Of China: Internal Constraints And Policy Implications, Kwei-Bo Huang

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

Chinese Foreign Policy During The Cultural Revolution (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran Ph.D.

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.Chinese Foreign Policy during the Cultural Revolution. London: Kegan Paul International, 1998. ISBN 0-7103-0580-X

The Market And Ethics: The Case Of The 1994 Decision By The Clinton Administration To Delink China's Human Rights Record From Most-Favored-Nation Status, Susan C. Morris

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

Amid the globalization of markets and the interdependence of states, human rights violations throughout the world still persist. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the economic interdependence of nations and the moral responsibilities of nations by examining the case of the 1994 decision by the Clinton administration to delink China's human rights practices from most-favored-nation status.

The annual 1997 Freedom House world survey of human rights rated China at its lowest point and quoted that “the regime continues to have one of the worst human rights records in the world.”1 Yet despite China's ongoing human …