... restraints in textiles and clothing by January 1, 2005. The ATC succeeded in eliminating these quotas in 2005, although countries remain free to impose quotas on non-WTO countries. China has ... gains and sectoral effects of removing all textileandapparel restraints in 2005. Liberalization is estimated to increase U.S. welfare by $3.5 billion (net) while decreasing U.S. textileand ... sectors in non-WTO countries that were subject to binding quotas in 2005. Using a quota fill rate of 90 percent to indicate a binding quota, exports were restrained in 10 sectors from China, 10...
... province; interviewswith enterprise and government officials in Beijing, Chongqing,Chengdu in Sichuan province, Shunde in Guangdong province, and other localities; and findings from surveys and ... governance in china 4 in- depth interviews with government officials, workers, and manag-ers and detailed case studies of 14 enterprises in the towns of Jinhua in Zhejiang province and Zhucheng in Shandong ... Jiyin (Integrity Consulting,Beijing), Klaus Lorch, Daochi Tong, Feng Tongqing (China LaborCollege), Jing Yiqing, (Deloitte & Touche, Beijing), Xu Xiaosong (China University of Politics and...
... their ownskills and experiences both of the industry inChina and internationally.Human resources issues facing the hotel and travel industry in China Hanquin Qui Zhang and Ellen WuInternational ... Republic of China. KeywordsHuman resource management, Hotel and catering industry,Tourism management, Education and training, China AbstractThere are many human resource challenges facing China s ... managers and theexpectations gap between education and industry.Second, China s travel agency sector is facingHuman resources issues facing the hotel and travel industry in China Hanquin Qui...
... Literacy and educational attainment in India trail far behind the progress in China. India’s mortality rates remain much higher than China s. Though the sex ratio at birth is much more distorted in ... China s economic reforms. The population of India is today vastly poorer than that of China. Rural-to-urban migration and urbanization in India are far less extensive and slower than in China. ... distorted inChina than India, after the first couple of years of life, the status of daughters, girls, and women in all age groups and by most measures is worse in India than in China. In all these...
... 1992 inChinaand find that the height difference between urban and rural children has been increasing since China s Reform and Opening Policy in 1978. Furthermore, Luo et al. (2009) examine ... Popkin, B.M., Du, S., Zhai, F., Zhang, B., 2010. Cohort profile: the China Health and Nutrition Survey monitoring and understanding socio-economic and health change in China, 1989-2011. International ... Liaoning, and Shandong. In the first three waves (1989, 1991, and 1993), Heilongjiang Province was not included. In the wave of 1997, Liaoning Province was excluded. In each sampled province,...
... timing of levy increases across China, and is robust toeither time-invariant or province-invariant factors driving levy rates and dumping behavior. Thesecoefcients indicate that the marginal ... wastewater, and the importance of increasing enforcement in China& apos;s industrial zones in the northern arid partsof the country, which are also densely populated. In Table 9, I examine how China& apos;s ... withprovince and year xed effects that absorb province- or year-specic variation in levies, and thestandard errors are clustered at the province level. Since China& apos;s levy rates have been rising...
... companies (China) East China Central China West China 1995 69,8 19,0 11,2 1998 64,6 23,0 12,4 Source: According to figures provided by the Administrative Office for Industry and Commerce in September ... project included two periods of fieldwork inChinaand Vietnam. The research in the field was for the most part carried out by two research assistants (Ji Xiaoming in Chinaand Arno Kohl in Vietnam). ... since the beginning of the reforms has had a mag-netic effect on foreign investors. China had far and away in the 1980s and 1990s the highest foreign investment of all developing nations. In...
... to China, in Vietnam branches predominated that are typical for developing countries i.e. textiles/shoes, food processing and paper and print products. InChina “modern” sectors such as machine ... developing Southeast and East of China exist in sharp contrast to less developed Central Chinaand the still less developed North-West, whereas in Vietnam the urban centers Ho Chi Minh City and ... into companies issuing shares or with differing modes of ownership.8 In 1994 in Gansu a policy correction took place in which an ap-peal was made explicitly to eliminate “left” thinking in...
... group and individual interests. At the same time, networks provide a connection between entrepreneurs and society, given that inChinaand Vietnam it is less the individual him/herself, and ... andin return the machine plant was transferred into his posses-sion after some years. He paid the institute both rent and a leasing fee. In conditions of institutional and legal uncertainty, ... provision and sales whose task consists in manufacturing and polishing guanxi. The development of guanxi strategies and tactics has developed into a type of science so that inChina people...
... rights and their respecting; obtaining credits; provision of information and further training; advertising their products; the working through and solution of SUMMARY 341 these meetings they invited ... Heterogeneity also shows itself in differing origins. Unlike in the private indi-vidual sector, or in trade, new entrepreneurial personalities in the industrial sphere inChinaand Vietnam do not hail ... time social and political involvement, and with that the influencing of political input and output. ã Safeguards and minimization of risks make the creation of social rela-tionships and networks...