1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791942203321

Autore

Wang Xiaoqi, Ph. D.

Titolo

China's civil service reform / / Wang Xiaoqi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32779-7

1-280-66468-1

9786613641618

0-203-12150-3

1-136-32780-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Comparative development and policy in Asia series ; ; 11

Disciplina

352.6/3

Soggetti

Civil service reform - China

Public administration - China

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; China's Civil Service Reform; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Civil services scope, structure and context for reforms; 3 Civil service reform policy and implementation; 4 Local implementation of civil service reforms; 5 Control of the bureaucracy and reform outcomes; 6 Implications for Asian developing countries; 7 Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China's outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number of administrative reforms, including civil service reform which emphasized on selecting and promoting public officials based on their capability and work performance. Thousands of positions have been filled since the civil service system was implemented nationwide in 1993. The Chinese civil service



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787723303321

Titolo

Beyond urban bias / / edited by Ashutosh Varshney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-23513-9

1-315-03726-2

1-135-23506-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (455 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VarshneyAshutosh <1957->

Disciplina

305.5/6/091724

Soggetti

Poor - Developing countries

Rural poor - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1993 by Frank Cass.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; I: Introduction; Urban Bias in Perspective; I. Town-Country Struggles in Development: A Brief Overview of Ideas; Agriculture and Industrialisation; The Political Issues; II. How Urban Bias is Reversed, Neutralised or Reduced; III. Concluding Remarks; II: Cases; The Origins of Agricultural Policy in Ivory Coast 1960-86; The Policy Environment in Comparative Perspective; Producer-Price Shares; Indirect Taxation: Exchange Rate Regimes; Extension Services and Marketing; Re-Investment of Tax Revenues in Agriculture

Farmers' IncomesThe Origins of a Favourable Policy Environment for Agriculture; Formative Experiences; Elite Landholdings; Agricultural Prices and Labour Demand; Economic Thought; Institutions, Agricultural Prices, and Public Investment: 1970-86; Agro-Industries and the Urban-Rural Alliance; New Urban-Rural Linkages; The Ressortissants and Dialogue; Côte D'Ivoire in Comparative Persepctive; Exceptions to Urban Bias in Latin America: Cuba and Costa Rica; The Setting; Cuba; Costa Rica; Conclusion; Economic Structure and the Politics of Sectoral Bias: East Asian and Other Cases; I. Introduction

II. Class and Choice-Theoretic ApproachesIII. Rational Choice Theories; Food Markets; Markets for Factors of Production and Consumer Goods; Refinements to the Model; Cash Crop Markets; IV. The Shift from Rural



to Urban Bias; V. Rational Choice Analysis and the State; VI. The Rational Choice Analysis: East Asia; VII. The Political Subordination of East Asian Agriculture; East Asian Polities; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; Taiwan - Exclusionary Institutions; Taiwan - Participatory Institutions; VIII. Explaining the East Asian Puzzle; IX. The Limits of the Rational Choice Paradigm

X. The State and AgricultureReform and Urban Bias in China; Introduction; The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Incomes; Declining Agricultural Incomes: 1985 to the Present; Pricing Structure; Scissors Effect; IOUs; The Rise of Rural Industry and Peasant Incomes; Rural Industry and Narrowing of the Urban-Rural Gap; Urban Bias and the Power of the Communist State; Rural Bias in the East and South-east Asian Rice Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective; Models of Price Formation; The Institutional Context for Setting Rice Prices

A Statistical Analysis of Variance in Domestic Prices for Rice Relative to World PricesThe Political Economy of Rice Prices in Indonesia; Self-Limited Empowerment: Democracy, Economic Development and Rural India; I. The Changing Shape of India's Political Universe; Why Has Rural Power Risen: The Role of Democracy; II. Policy Outcomes for Farm Groups; Terms of the Existing Debate; Resolving the Debate: Constructing a Return Index and Its Results; III. The Disjunction Between the Political and the Economic: Proximate Causes; (i) The Role of Technology

(ii) The Demand Constraint: How the Poor Affect the Income of Surplus Farmers

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.