People Weekly Yearbook 2000

People Weekly Yearbook 2000
Author: Eric Levin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography
ISBN: 9781883013851

Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.

Formula 1 - 2002 World Championship Yearbook

Formula 1 - 2002 World Championship Yearbook
Author: Giorgio Stirano
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780896586079

This is the world's best-selling Formula 1 yearbook: a magnificently produced photographic review of the entire World Championship season, combined with detailed reports and analyses of each of the seventeen Grand Prix races around the world. For each race a two-page spread shows the starting line-up, a detailed account of the race and the result, a description of the circuit, the weather conditions on the day of the race, and the particular issues and talking points that dominated discussion at the time. Other chapters focus on the key issues of the season, lavishly illustrated with photographs. One chapter is devoted to the return of Formula 1 to the USA, and a brief account of its history there. Finally, the book contains an editorial by Giorgio Stirano devoted to the story of technical development of tires and suspension, as well as a 120-page portfolio of glorious color photographs covering the entire season, and 16 pages of superb cutaway section drawings of the main competing cars. No follower of Formula 1 should be without this definitive record of a memorable World Championship season! Superb photography, complete race summaries, inside stories, and technical cut-away drawings of the cars. The world's best-selling racing annual devoted exclusively to Formula 1. For racing enthusiasts.

The Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002

The Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Gollancz
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780575071049

The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves¿ Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, who encouraged the setting-up of the Guild to avoid the random, unfair and disorganised crime which, until his ascent to power, plagued the great city of Ankh-Morpork. Now crime is legal, organised and run to an annual budget and everyone is happy ¿ well, almost everyone: woe betide the unlicensed thief, highwayman or slipperlegger who tries to do business without Guild approval! Stunningly illustrated, as in previous years, by Paul Kidby.

Assessing the Extent of China's Marketization

Assessing the Extent of China's Marketization
Author: Xiaoxi Li
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317177916

China is indisputably one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world; however the character, nature and extent of its market economy status remains in question. This book provides an empirical analysis of many aspects of the developing market economy including: government reform; the marketization of enterprises; land transactions; capital transactions and finance; the market determination of wage rates; the development of intermediary organizations; and the improvement in the economy's legal framework. China's economic growth has also brought conflict with both the EU and the US. This book examines the contentious debates such as: the extent of renminbi convertibility; the independence of the financial sector; the freedom of labour in wage-rate bargaining; the extent of foreign investment; the extent of government ownership of enterprises; the protection of property rights; and the development of company law and of corporate governance.

China's Education Aid to Africa

China's Education Aid to Africa
Author: Wei Ye
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000884589

China’s rise as an aid provider in Africa has caught global attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context. This book, which focuses on China’s education aid—government scholarships, training, Confucius Institutes, dispatched teachers, etc., reveals a much more complicated picture. It outlines how the divide between the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Education hinders China’s soft power projection, how much of China’s aid is bound up with an education-for-economic-growth outlook, mirroring China’s own recent experiences of economic development, and how China’s aid—prioritized to reflect the commercial sector’s interests—is out of step with most international development aid, which is dominated by education agendas and the campaigns of international organizations and traditional donors; this leaves China easily exposed to the charge of neo-colonialism. This situation also reveals insufficient knowledge production of China and in South-South Cooperation. Substantial production of Southern knowledge should recognize the international development cooperation architecture as an open system by which both traditional donors and Southern countries transform.

Economic Development and Inequality in China

Economic Development and Inequality in China
Author: Hong Yu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136885080

The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong is one of the key industrial centres and economic powerhouses in China and as a pioneer province, instigating economic reform as China opened up to the world, it offers an ideal focus upon which to question and enrich the Western theories of economic geography and regional disparity. Based on field research, analysis of geographic characteristics and regression models, this book illustrates how Guangdong’s impressive development record has been marred by its rising regional disparity, investigates the main causes of this disparity, and draws conclusions regarding the lessons China can learn from it. Economic Development and Inequality in China will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese economics, Chinese regional studies, economic geography and China Studies. Hong Yu is a Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in the field of regional economy. He is the author of a chapter on China’s two delta regions in the book "China and The Global Economic Crisis".