Der Verfasser gibt zunächst einen Überblick über strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen in ländlichen Regionen Vietnams und Chinas zu Beginn und im Verlauf der Reformpolitik. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden Determinanten der Unternehmensgründung und -entwicklung auf dem Land in beiden Staaten...

By developing a model to estimate the environmental externalities associated with electricity generation, this project provides a detailed analysis of the damages and costs caused by different pollutants at varying distances from the Mawan Electricity Plant in Shenzhen, China. The major findings...

Improving lake water quality is believed to increase the economic value of recreational resorts. However, few empirical estimates have been made in China to determine the value of the economic benefits brought about by such improvements. In this study, two non-market valuation methods,...

China began its program of economic reforms in 1978 and has enjoyed double-digit annual growth ever since. Agricultural reforms were implemented most aggressively (Lin 1992). Industrial reforms and industrial growth followed and, as in any rapidly industrializing economy, so did industrial...