Search

Reset

Searching in China

Showing 1331-1340 of 1699 results

Pages

  • Document

    Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004
    This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
  • Document

    Women’s inheritance rights in rural China: tradition, legislation and reality

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    In rural China, tradition bars women from inheritance. This is being challenged by new laws and women’s increased access to waged employment and education. However, there is still a significant gap between legislation and social reality.
  • Document

    Is China losing the fight against HIV/AIDS?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    As HIV/AIDS has spread in China, the Chinese Government has been more willing to work with international experts and civil society to fight the disease. However, China’s embrace of uncontrolled capitalism, rising inequalities, reduction in state-provided welfare and the impact of decentralisation all limit the country’s ability to manage the epidemic.
  • Document

    Decentralising health workforce management in China and South Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Decentralising health workforce management may help local services to coordinate and plan their human resources more effectively to meet health care needs.
  • Document

    Stopping poverty in its tracks: road building in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Reforms in China have led to rapid economic growth, which is also partly due to road building. Little analysis exists, however, of what type of road is best or of regional variations in growth and poverty alleviation.
  • Document

    Iatrogenic poverty

    Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2003
    This article, published in Tropical Medicine and International Health, examines the issues surrounding “iatrogenic poverty” – poverty caused by spending on medical treatment.
  • Document

    Contraception failure and abortion in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Contraception failure is common in China.  Abortion is often used as a backup method when contraception fails.  Abortions, in particular repeated and unsafe abortions, are damaging to women’s physical and psychological health. Do national family planning programmes affect a woman’s decision on whether to terminate the pregnancy? 
  • Document

    Restrictions on AIDS activists in China

    Human Rights Watch, 2005
    This Human Rights Watch report explores how continuing restrictions on Chinese civil society has hindered the growth and activities of grass-roots HIV and AIDS activists groups.
  • Document

    Migration, development and poverty reduction in Asia

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    This document is a report from the The Regional Conference on Migration and Development in Asia, held in Lanzhou, China from 14-16 March 2005.The report focuses on the migration and development experiences of a selected number of Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
  • Document

    Do party-states transform by learning?: the structural background of the different transformation paths in view of the Romanian, Hungarian and Chinese cases

    Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004
    How do party states learn and adapt? Through the introduction of a comparative party-state model, the author demonstrates that due to specific structural and dynamic constraints (specifics in time, space, different aggregation and conditions of the structure), the capacity of party-states to learn is both limited and uneven.

Pages