The funding of basic education is provided via different schemes. In the United States, local sources had long been dominant; equity concerns later pulled in the state for resource equalization under constitutional considerations. Another scheme is the involvement of the central government. In...

Crowdfunding is an alternative funding mechanism whereby innovators can access funding for their projects using a variety of “payback” options to investors – from traditional rewards such as equity, dividends and repayments with interest to non-monetary rewards such as physical or digital...

This paper investigates the impact of FDI on carbon emissions in China's manufacturing sector, using statistical data from 2003 to 2020 as a reference. To account for the heterogeneity of manufacturing industries, we classify them into three categories based on input factors: resource-intensive,...

This monograph offers a detailed analysis of the creation, pilot implementation, and possible wide adoption of the real property tax at the local level in China. Starting in 2003, as China’s economy gradually recovered from the Asian financial crisis that started in 1998, the real property...