| Organization | Date |
Title |
Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Resources Defense Council | 06.30.10 |
Breaking the Ice on Environmental Open Information Ma Jun, Wang Jingjing, Ruan Qingyuan, Shen Sunan, Wu Wei, Alex Wang, Hu Yuanqiong, Michael Zhang & Zhang Xiya On May 1, 2008, the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Open Government Information and the Ministry of Environmental Protection Measures on Open Environmental Information (trial) entered into effect. These regulations stand as major... |
Environmental Regulation, Pollution, Urban Issues |
| Amnesty International | 03.7.12 | Bringing China’s Criminal Procedure Law in Line With International StandardsIn August 2011, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress issued the Criminal Procedure Law Draft Revisions, which were then submitted for approval at the March 2012 meeting of the National People’s Congress. This Amnesty International... | Civil Rights |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 07.1.09 |
Broad Money Demand and Asset Substitution in China Ge Wu Recent changes to China's financial system, in particular ongoing interest rate liberalization, gradual movement toward a more flexible exchange rate regime, and rapid development of capital markets, have changed substantially the environment in which... |
Finance, Monetary Policy |
| World Bank | 01.1.09 |
Building Bridges: China’s Growing Role as Infrastructure Financier for Sub-Saharan Africa Vivien Foster, William Butterfield, Chuan Chen, and Nataliya Pushak Over the last decade Chinese investment in Africa has grown considerably. This includes the financing of large infrastructural projects in many African countries. Although Chinese finance of African infrastructure is important, there is not much known... |
Investment, Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Paulson Institute | 04.1.15 |
Can Carbon Taxes be Good for China and the United States? Antung Anthony Liu One way that China may meaningfully control its emissions is through the recent idea of a national carbon permit trading system, building on its carbon permit pilot programs. In China’s case, the internal debate about promulgating these actions centers... |
Carbon, Carbon Trading, Environmental Regulation, Environment, Energy |
| World Bank | 12.1.10 |
Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural to Urban Migration John Giles, Dewen Wang, and Changbao Zhao Support from the family continues to be an important source of support for the rural elderly, particularly the rural elderly over seventy years of age. Decline in likelihood of co-residence with, or in close proximity to, adult children raises the... |
Aging Population, Elderly, Migration, Pensions |
| Overseas Development Institute | 04.1.15 |
Can Fracking Green China’s Growth? Ilmi Granoff, Sam Pickard, Julian Doczi, Roger Calow, Zhenbo Hou, & Vanessa D’Alançon This paper analyses the best available technical, scientific, and engineering literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk. It also analyses China’s... |
Greenhouse Gases, Fracking, Shale Gas, Water Pollution, Energy, Clean Energy |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 11.1.06 |
Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses Andrew Feltenstein and Céline Rochon A study of the impact of labor market restructuring and foreign direct investment on the banking sector, using a dynamic general equilibrium model with a financial sector. Numerical simulations are performed using stylized Chinese data, and bank failures... |
Banking |
| Cato Institute | 04.1.06 |
Capital Flows, Overheating, and the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime in China Fred Hu The evidence of “hot money” clearly shows that China’s cumbersome system of capital controls is not as effective as officials claim. There is no doubt that the greater openness of China’s economy will certainly generate growing tensions with the country’... |
Economy, Fiscal Policy |
| BSR | 11.1.11 |
Catalyzing Social Investment in China Brooke Avory, Adam Lane In May 2008, an earthquake hit the western Chinese province of Sichuan, taking 80,000 lives and displacing millions of others. The earthquake inspired an increase in donations from RMB13.3 billion in 2007 to RMB76.4 billion in 2008 and highlighted... |
Philanthropy, Government Transparency, Non-Profit Sector |