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Social change and its potential impacts on Chinese population health
Hygiea Internationalis, 2004This article, published in the electronic journal Hygiea Internationalis, examines the social change that has followed China’s economic reforms and considers its implications for health. Improvements in wealth, nutrition status, water systems, and numbers of hospital beds and doctors since the 1980s have all improved population health status.DocumentEconomic Survey of China 2005 - Policy Brief
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005This policy brief presents the assessment and recommendations of the 2005 OECD Economic Survey of China. The Economic Survey of China assesses the state of the Chinese economy and also highlights.Main assessments of the survey include:China’s economic growth has averaged 9½ per cent over the past two decades.DocumentWill China eat our lunch or take us out to dinner? Simulating the transition paths of the U.S., EU, Japan and China
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005People in the developed world are ageing, and economic projections have shown how this demographic is likely to lead to capital shortage, reducing real wages per unit of human capital in order to compensate for benefit-related tax hikes. This paper posits that adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction.DocumentA currency basket for East Asia: not just China
Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005China recently announced that it is adopting a basket of currencies as the peg for its exchange rate instead of the US dollar. This move raises the question of whether such a currency basket could be adopted in other East Asian countries.DocumentIntellectual property and development: lessons from recent economic research
World Bank Publications, 2005This collection of essays brings together studies conducted by World Bank or Bank-affiliated economic researchers on the economic underpinnings of different forms of IPR protection.Topics covered include: how stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flowsthe role of intellectual property rights in encouraging foreign direct investment and techDocumentFDI flows to asia: did the dragon crowd out the tigers?
International Monetary Fund, 2005This working paper suggests that China did not have a significant impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) to other Asian countries.DocumentMore staff, fewer patients: changes in health worker productivity in rural China
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005In China, sweeping economic reforms have taken place over the past two decades. Health facilities now rely less on government funding and more on user charges to cover costs. Health managers have gained greater control over human resources. Nevertheless, the question of improving staff productivity remains a major challenge.DocumentThe toy industry in China: undermining workers’ rights and rule of law
China Labor Watch, 2005This report, based on investigations of eleven randomly selected toy plants in the Guangdong Province, China, gives a picture of some of the problems shared by the industry as a whole. It shows that newly adopted corporate codes of conduct have not halted the infringement of toy workers’ rights.DocumentInfluence of social institutions on inequality in China
Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005This study analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China.DocumentClimate change: a golden opportunity for business
The Business Online, 2005Suggesting it is unreasonable for the West to expect industrialising countries to curb their development for the sake of climate change, this article makes a case for the development of new, cleaner technologies.Pages