The Nature of the Public - Owned Enterprise and Its Reform in China : Missing Owners ?

Have Health Human Resources Become More Equal Between Rural and Urban Areas after the New Reform?

The lack of health human resources is a global issue. China also faces the same issue, in addition to the equity of human resources allocation. With the launch of new healthcare reform of China in 2009, have the issues been improved? Relevant data from China Health Statistical Yearbook and a qualitative study show that the unequal allocation of health human resources is getting worse than before.

Policy Burdens, Soft Budget Constraint and State-owned Enterprise Reform in China

Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Property Reform in China

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of private property rights and employer-provided housing on entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting state-owned housing the opportunity to buy their homes at subsidized prices. I develop a model of job choice to test two mechanisms that might explain how...

Requirements and challenges of imposing taxes from increasing the value and compensation of damages resulting from the implementation of urban development plans in Tehran

Introduction: The implementation of urban land-use plans has a two-way relationship with private property and property rights. While land-use planning is inextricably linked to private ownership, in practice, planners do not take the slightest responsibility for this in their plans. The study shows that this issue is one of the main reasons for the failure to provide public services and land-us...

Privatization and Corporate Governance in Brazil

The reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has become an integral part of most macroeconomic stabilisation programmes implemented worldwide in recent years. The main instruments used to reform these enterprises have been divestiture and workforce downsizing. In Latin America, in particular, the pursuit of fiscal consolidation has added another important dimension to public enterprise reform. ...