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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Market reform"”.
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What Cost Hospital Quality: Performance Uncertainty Under Market Reform
… in the last few decades, an era characterized by market reform. Healthcare production has revealed both economic and quality problems in past eras, and reporting on these problems can be seen to have contributed to pressures for social reform. Yet, the move toward more market-oriented governance …
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Models of labour market reform : Poland, Sweden and the case of China
… competitiveness and an efficient labour market system. It is also generally agreed among economists that governments share responsibilities in terms of promoting growth and stabilising the economy. However, there are significant differences in the roles played by governments, and the …
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The British Energy Market Reform: Carbon Prices, Retail Tariffs, and Cost Pass-through
… by 2050. The Act has triggered the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) started in 2013, which aims at decarbonising electricity supply, ensuring the security of supply, and minimising the cost of energy to consumers. This thesis focus on policies and instruments that support the EMR. Chapter 1 …
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Inter-Provincial Income Inequality in China
… of the study is that in the early phase of the market reform process initial conditions are more important than the tendencies of the market process. In the early reform period distortions in the spatial and sectoral pattern of China's economy and price system must be unwound before the …
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The Transition From Welfare to Work: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Women's Employment Patterns
… support. It also supports large scale labor market reform including the creation of jobs which pay a living wage as low-wage work does not prevent poverty. The need for greater local employment opportunities and increased transportation options for city residents is also clear.
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Long memory in bond market returns: a test of weak-form efficiency in Botswana's bond market
… examines the efficiency of Botswana's bond market. It focuses on the properties of the return and volatility of the Fleming Asset Bond Index (the main aggregate fixed income benchmark index in Botswana) over the period September 2009 to May 2019. The weak-form version of efficient market …
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Anticorruption Television Dramas: Between Propaganda and Popular Culture in Globalizing China
… poses a challenge to the legitimacy of the market reform policy, which suggests a more fundamental hegemony at work.
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Effects of housing policies on intra-urban inequality in transitioning China
In the People's Republic of China, housing reform was launched in the 1980s as a component of the overall economic reform. In the 1990s, housing policies, privatization and subsidies combined, were found to contribute to over one-third of the overall inequality in urban income distribution in …
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EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD
… transition in China since the beginning of the market reform and opening policy in 1978. To look at evolving childhood through their films is to position the construction of childhood under the prism of the most prominent and controversial cinematic transformation. On the one hand, the Fifth …
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Energy-intensity factors for Shanxi Province and China : shift-share and interregional structural decomposition analysis
… Shanxi Province and China. (1) continuing the market reform of Shanxi Province based on the lessons learned on China's coastal regions; (2) further incorporating Shanxi Province's economy into the global economy; (3) clarifying the roles of central and Shanxi Province's governments during the …
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Corporate political activity in sub-Saharan Africa : the influence of multinational enterprises in the institutionalisation of Uganda's electricity industry
… heterogeneous CPA strategies to respond to pro-market reform in emerging markets undergoing regulatory institutionalisation. Some of the most important responses reflect divergences in configuring the relationship with the host government and in nurturing adaptable and anticipatory political …
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Media Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
… words, the ambiguity lies in how to continue market reform without challenging the legitimacy of China’s claim to be socialist. In addition to the extensive analysis of the media representations of the Cultural Revolution and the investigation into the contrast between history and memory, I …
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Developing a natural gas trading hub in China
… 10% in 2020. Ensuing the 2013 national pricing reform, China started to launch more fundamental market reform in the natural gas industry and proposed to set up a gas hub in Shanghai. At the same time, there are also heated discussions for Asia to set up a benchmark gas hub with the growing …
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Ecosystems for Responsible Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation: Navigating Change and Complexity
… in which founders are encouraged to pursue market reform while allowing for negative externalities to diffuse in society. With increasing societal concern over these externalities, how might societies transition toward a new normal of responsible entrepreneurship? Paper 1, drawing on …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… country in the world, China embarked on market reform three decades ago and has ever since experienced dramatic socio-economic transition towards modernisation, industrialisation and urbanisation. Significant levels of academic attention have focused on empirically identifying economic …
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Marriage, motherhood, childcare arrangements and work: female labor force participation and informal employment under Chinese economic reform
… balance family and work obligations during the market transition from 1991 to 2011. I study family obligations arise from marriage, motherhood, and childcare arrangements along Chinese women’s life course, and how they impact on Chinese women’s participation in the labor force and involvement in …
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Corporate Governance, Firm Performance, and Information Leakage: an Empirical Analysis of the Chinese Stock Market
… information leakage in the Chinese securities market. As one of the major emerging markets in the world, the results of this thesis are valuable not only to the Chinese market, but also to other emerging markets. To achieve this purpose, data is collected from most of the non-financial listed …
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Electricity service utilities in the GCC : steps towards a common regulatory reform
… while taking practical steps in the direction of market opening and liberalisation. Over the past ten years, the GCC has evolved into a more integrated economic zone with agreed common policies that are coordinated through its Secretariat. With respect to service utilities, the GCC Interconnection …
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