China has become a popular geographic area of research. Researchers make extensive use of Chinese official statistics, but these statistics are often not well understood. This article first clarifies three major issues that affect a wide range of Chinese statistics—from output and employment...

Since the 1998 “wind of falsification and embellishment,” Chinese official GDP statistics have repeatedly come under scrutiny. This paper evaluates the quality of China’s GDP statistics in four stages. First, it reviews past and ongoing suspicions of the quality of GDP data and examines...

This paper tried to examine the level of cointegration among various nations across the continents in regard to the globalisation. Also here attempt is made to analyse the nature of inter and intra continental variation in globalisation over time. The proximity and convergence over time in terms...

The main idea of liberalism – the inviolability of “inalienable human rights” – is considered in a historical context, not as an eternal principle, but as a changing moral and legal norm. It is argued that the economic success of the West during the transition to capitalism is associated...

Русский: Трансформационный кризис представляется результатом активного применения неоклассической модели трансформации, и для выхода из него требуется...

This study is earlier research works done on Tharparkar and Sindh barrage, and similar studies related to demographic, social and economic conditions and chapter-2 as a literature review of the thesis of Ph.D submitted in 2002. Purpose of the chapter was to give the complete picture of both...

This is a book about modern China, mainly about the economy (about half the text), but also about culture, history, religion, and politics. There are three main issues discussed in the book: (1) Why did China (and earlier other countries and territories of East Asia, largely based on the Chinese...

Pas gati tri decenieve që nga fillimi i transicionit nga komunizmi për në demokraci dhe ekonomi të hapur të tregut në Evropën Qendrore dhe Lindore (EQL), Konsensusi i Uashingtonit në përgjithësi e merr notën si dështim. Gjersa përvoja nga EQL përveç rezultateve të përbashkëta...

This Report is a third in the series Employment in Poland. It consists of four Parts, devoted to empirical analysis of the impact of macroeconomic shocks on EU New Member States labour markets‘ in 1996-2006; utilization of flexible forms of employment on Polish labor market, determinants of wages...

At the beginning of the transition period, the public debt in Romania was insignificant. However, during the following years, the accumulating process accelerated. Although the indebtedness degree continues to be smaller than registered levels in other European countries, more dangerous could be...