Abstract The article recounts the transnational political activities of Situ Meitang, who led Hongmen Chee Kung Tong in Americas support Nationalist government during Second World War. At end Chinese Civil War, he endorsed People’s Republic China and settled Beijing. shows that current biographies ignore complexity his ideas, including a desire for democracy economic development southern China....

Each year large numbers of medical graduates from the Indian subcontinent arrive in the UK seeking further training and experience in neonatal intensive care. Most of these doctors are certain that they wish ultimately to return to practice in their own country. How is British training perceived abroad and how well do the experiences of overseas doctors prepare them for practice on their return...

Farm investment is required for productivity, efficiency and profitability, but the need-impact relationships are quite complex because of the uncertainties of weather, biological product, and markets. Problems arise because of investment and economic cycles, and are compounded by uncertainties over government fiscal and investment policy. This paper reviews Australian farm investment character...

To examine the role of international competition in outsourcing production decisions, I study the decisions of producers who used the U.S. Overseas Assembly Program (OAP) to conduct assembly operations in developing countries. The evidence, which is based on U.S. OAP imports between 1991 to 2000, shows that production costs and corporate tax policies both shaped production decisions. While incr...

We examine the effect of the institutional environment (IE) on the mortality of overseas subsidiaries in a country and test whether partnership strategies help to mitigate the hazards that come from regulatory, normative and cognitive constraints that institutions place on these subsidiaries. We use measures of political openness and social openness to characterize the regulative and normative ...