1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464535503321

Autore

Chow Gregory C. <1929->

Titolo

Interpreting China's economy [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory C. Chow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2010

ISBN

1-283-14493-X

9786613144935

981-4317-96-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

330.95106

Soggetti

Electronic books.

China Economic conditions 2000-

China Economic policy 2000-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Economic development -- pt. 2. Economic analysis -- pt. 3. Economic policy -- pt. 4. Thoughts about the American economy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert. Beginning with entrepreneurship that propels the dynamic economic changes in China today, the book is organized into four broad parts to discuss China's economic development, to analyze significant economic issues, to recommend economic policies and to comment on the timely economic issues in the American economy for comparison. Unlike a textbook, the discussion is original and thought-provoking. It is written by a most d



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910170977903321

Titolo

Gender, health and welfare / / edited by Anne Digby and John Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1998, c1996

ISBN

1-134-66265-3

1-134-66266-1

1-280-33219-0

0-203-27222-6

0-203-02606-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DigbyAnne

StewartJohn <1951 Dec. 3->

Disciplina

362.83/8/0941

Soggetti

Women - Services for - Great Britain - History

Women - Health and hygiene - Great Britain - History

Public welfare - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1996, reprinted 1997. First published in paperback 1998.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Editors' note to the paperback edition; Acknowledgements; Welfare in context Anne Digby and John Stewart; Excess female mortality: constructing survival during development in Meiji Japan and Victorian England Sheila Ryan Johansson; Poverty, health and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870  1948 Anne Digby; Octavia Hill and women's networks in housing Caroline Morrell; Late nineteenth-century philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining Theresa Deane; The campaign for birth control in Britain in the 1920s Lesley Hoggart

'The children's party, therefore the women's party': the Labour Party and child welfare in inter-war Britain John StewartGender, welfare and old age in Britain, 1870s  1940s Pat Thane; Gender and welfare in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Jane Lewis; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gender, Health and Welfare deals primarily with the century before the creation of the classic welfare state in Britain. It provides a stimulating introduction to an historical era which saw a huge expansion in welfare



services, both state and voluntary, and during which women emerged as significant 'consumers' and 'providers' of various measures.