Western China's Economy and Regional Sustainable Development

Author: Wu Haiying
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book includes research findings from many renowned economists and young researchers both domestically and internationally in both Chinese and English. These findings cover a wide range of topics such as special essays, cultural differences and institutional change, regional economics and western development, human capital and education models, ecological economics and environmental applications, local governments and capital markets, rural poverty and income gaps, etc. It is a new collection of achievements in the study of China's western economy. It holds certain reference value for research on China's western development policies and regional development strategies, as well as issues in western China's education, healthcare, ecology, poverty, and cultural differences between the East and West, especially ethnic cultures.
This book is a compilation of papers selected from the International Conference on Village Economy in Western China and Regional Sustainable Development, as well as the 2nd Annual Meeting of the China Western Development Research Association, held in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in June 2005. It includes special essays, cultural differences and institutional change, regional economics and western development, human capital and education models, ecological economics and environmental applications, local governments and capital markets, rural poverty and income gaps, and other extensive content, making it a new collection of achievements in the study of China's western economy.
Academic institutions such as the Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences, the China Association of Economists in the U.S., and the Rural Development Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences were the organizers of the conference and provided support for the compilation of the papers. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Dean of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in the U.S. and a renowned economist, and Du Ping, Director of the State Council's Western Development Office, wrote the prefaces for the book. This book includes research findings from many renowned economists and young researchers both domestically and internationally in both Chinese and English.