Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- PART I – SETTING THE SCENE: REGIONAL TRENDS IN AN EVOLVING GLOBAL SCENARIO -- 2. The Changing Patterns of Investment Rule-Making: Issues and actors -- 3. Shaping Globalization: Recent Trends in Asia-Pacific Foreign Direct Investment -- 4. Reforming the International Investment Regime: Two Challenges -- 5. Investment Protection and Host State’s Right to Regulat…
Introduction -- Socialist Medicine and Theories of Informal Payments -- Institutional Changes and the Power of Chinese Medical Professionals -- Health Reform and the Rise of Informal Payments after 1978 -- Transactions of Red Packets in the Hospital -- Rein in Red Packets -- Conclusion.This text addresses the key issue of informal payments, or ‘red packets’, in the Chinese Healthcare system…
By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society. Against the background of decentralization and under information asymmetry, this text argues that Chinese local governments conni…
General Report -- Population Aging and Economic Growth -- Population Aging and Consumption -- Population Aging and Employment -- Population Aging and Urbanization -- Population Aging and Social Transition -- Population Aging and Endowment Insurance -- Survey Report on Economic Condition and Old-age Support of Peasants in 20 Provinces.This book includes a series of reports that mainly discuss th…
Introduction: New Religiosities, Modern Capitalism and Moral Complexities in Southeast Asia -- Muhammadiyah vs. Mammon: The Economic Trials and Tribulations of an Islamic Modernist Mass-Organization in Indonesia (1990s-2000s) -- Beyond the Prosperity Gospel: Moral Identity Work and Organizational Cultures in Pentecostal-charismatic Churches in Indonesia -- New Life in an Expanding Market Econom…