... and manag-ers and detailed case studies of 14 enterprises in the towns of Jinhua in Zhejiang province and Zhucheng in Shandong province; interviewswith enterpriseand government officials in ... in Beijing, Chongqing,Chengdu in Sichuan province, Shunde in Guangdong province, and other localities; and findings from surveys and research conducted byChinese academic and government institutions. ... limited and was hindered by the opposition of vestedchap2.p65 3/15/02, 4:03 PM11 Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reformin China Building the Institutionsof Modern MarketsWorld Bank and the International...
... rating agencies in the banking crisis 66 Quality of ratings 68 Prospects for reform of credit rating agencies 70 Conflicts of interest 71 Banking Crisis: reforming corporategovernanceand ... Banking Crisis: reforming corporategovernanceand pay in the City 2 Remuneration in the banking sector Introduction 6. The banking crisis has propelled the issue of remuneration practices in ... Banking Crisis: reforming corporategovernanceand pay in the City 1 Contents Report Page Summary 3 1 Introduction 6 2 Remuneration in the banking sector 8 Introduction 8 Salary levels in...
... their ownskills and experiences both of the industry inChina and internationally.Human resources issues facing the hotel and travel industry in China Hanquin Qui Zhang and Ellen WuInternational ... Republic of China. KeywordsHuman resource management, Hotel and catering industry,Tourism management, Education and training, China AbstractThere are many human resource challenges facing China s ... managers and theexpectations gap between education and industry.Second, China s travel agency sector is facingHuman resources issues facing the hotel and travel industry in China Hanquin Qui...
... China s economic reforms. The population of India is today vastly poorer than that of China. Rural-to-urban migration and urbanization in India are far less extensive and slower than in China. ... Literacy and educational attainment in India trail far behind the progress in China. India’s mortality rates remain much higher than China s. Though the sex ratio at birth is much more distorted in ... distorted inChina than India, after the first couple of years of life, the status of daughters, girls, and women in all age groups and by most measures is worse in India than in China. In all these...
... Great Britain and Ireland, as the intercommunication of knowledge and kindly feelings must be the result, tending to the promotion of friendly intercourse, and to maintain peace, so desirable ... thousandconsiderate and reflecting people, in the Union, who desire or demand anything of the kind. “The commercial and mercantile classes have not desired reform; ’ and the rural and agricultural ... business of the country, but upon the intelligence, knowledge, and the exercise of the friendly and social feelings; andin the opinion of the undersigned, should be reduced to the lowest point...
... 1992 inChinaand find that the height difference between urban and rural children has been increasing since China s Reformand Opening Policy in 1978. Furthermore, Luo et al. (2009) examine ... Popkin, B.M., Du, S., Zhai, F., Zhang, B., 2010. Cohort profile: the China Health and Nutrition Survey monitoring and understanding socio-economic and health change in China, 1989-2011. International ... Liaoning, and Shandong. In the first three waves (1989, 1991, and 1993), Heilongjiang Province was not included. In the wave of 1997, Liaoning Province was excluded. In each sampled province,...
... timing of levy increases across China, and is robust toeither time-invariant or province-invariant factors driving levy rates and dumping behavior. Thesecoefcients indicate that the marginal ... wastewater, and the importance of increasing enforcement in China& apos;s industrial zones in the northern arid partsof the country, which are also densely populated. In Table 9, I examine how China& apos;s ... withprovince and year xed effects that absorb province- or year-specic variation in levies, and thestandard errors are clustered at the province level. Since China& apos;s levy rates have been rising...
... integrating non-financial criteria (social, environmental and societal) in decisions involving funds and portfolio management. 2.3.4 Sustainability investing Sustainability investing( SI) ... CSR including : CorporateGovernance (CG) , links between CG and CSR, and Global Reporting Initiative ( GRI). 3.2 Theoretical framework and measurement 3.2.1 Corporate governane Corporate governance ... characteristics of business such as age and gender. Moreover, including the three theoretical framework : corporate governance, links to corporate governanceand Global Reporting Initiative may not...
... education targeting drug users. China s 1998-2010 Strategic Plan included specific goals to expand programs targeting drug users both in community settings andin detox and RTL centers. China s response ... being forced to undergo HIV testing while in confinement and none reported being told the result. • Withholding or termination of HIV and drug dependency treatment to detainees confined in ... research in Beijing and Guangxi province for five weeks between July and August 2007. In addition to interviews with Chinese government officials and individuals conducting services and outreach...
... the OECD and the Basel Committee, have been influential in determining the shape and evolution of corporate- governance standards in many advanced economies and developing countries and, in particular, ... important corporategovernance scandals involved UK banks and financial firms: British and Commonwealth Bank in 1990; the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in 1992 to 1993; and the Barings ... In recent years, UK corporategovernance has been greatly influenced by the corporate and financial scandals in the United States, and by the broader framework of reforms being undertaken in...
... these governance provisions in avoiding serious ac-counting problems at companies, as manifested in a restatement of earnings.This paper is a step in that direction.We examine whether certain governance ... and economicsby examining the number of quarters restated and the percentage and dollarvalue change between originally reported and newly restated earnings.For each restating firm, we obtain ... overseeing the financial reporting of the firm. The board is responsiblefor issues such as the hiring, compensation, and firing of the CEO and overseeing the firm’s overall business strategy, including...
... butterflies, animals, insects and even human beings. Some kites incorporated bamboo flutes and becameknown as wind harps. In Northern China, skis made of wood were availablefor hunting and recreation. ... The swing was originally used by northern tribes for agility. Thestandard swing was introduced into central China between 770–476 BC, and the rotating swing had appeared by 475–221 BC. During ... and gambling was involved.During the Zhou period, the emperor ordered his leaders and commandersto give instruction in military operations, and exercise soldiers in archery,charioteering and...
... examined corporategovernancein the banking industry in Spain. Crespí, García-Cestona, and Salas (2004) analyzed corporategovernancein Spanish banks during the period 1986-2000. They examined ... borrowing from savings banks from other provinces. This analysis may shed insight on lending practices, andin particular the risk taking behavior, of savings banks expanding into new markets and ... on investments and financial services, subsidized lending and geographic branching restrictions. In this paper we consider an interesting natural experiment, relating liberalization and corporate...
... a UN monitoring and reporting mechanism to collect information on violations against children in armed conflict, including sexual violence. As part of the monitoring and reporting mechanism, ... abuse, including sexual violence; o Ensure that all soldiers of all ranks—including those recently integrated into the army—receive regular, mandatory training on civilian protection, including ... o Inform victims and their families about their rights and judicial proceedings, offer counseling to adult and child victims through trained staff, and avoid re-traumatizing or stigmatizing...