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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on fresh and chilled fish fillets in China face a number of questions.Which countries are supplying fresh and chilled fish fillets to China? How important is China compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of fresh and chilled fish fillets vary from one country of origin to another in China?On the supply side, China also exports fresh and chilled fish fillets.Which countries receive the most exports from China? How are these exports concentrated across buyers?What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for fresh and chilled fish fillets in China.With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view.Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.Icon Group has developed a proprietary methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for fresh and chilled fish fillets for those countries serving China via exports, or supplying from China via imports.It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. ... Read more

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Using five Chinese villages as the research material, this study provides first hand information about rural-urban and rural-rural migration in China after 1980. It aims to compare the results of the survey with two other theories on the nature of rural-urban migration. The model built up is multi-disciplinary, based on documentary research in the disciplines of sociology/anthropology and development economics. The particular focus and critique concerns two sociological theories illustrated by Revanstein and Leww, and two economic models inferred by Lewis and Todaro which have been widely quoted in the literature of migration. ... Read more

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Samuel J. Elsersveld and Mingming Shen, the authors of this important "two-wave" study, illuminate a unique and richly contoured view of Chinese attitudes about political and economic reform. They base their findings on the responses of a panel of over 800 mass respondents, approximately 1300 interviews with villagers, and 250 interviews with cadres. The authors provide extensive analysis of their data and find that the level of popular support for reform and support for democratic values is surprisingly high. Of particular interest is the examination of support for political, specifically citizen, participation--contacting officials, attending party and village meetings, and voting for village committees. The authors find significant variance in mass and cadres beliefs, but Eldersveld and Shen's findings provide impressive new data for the study of economic and political development in China, and the possibility of democracy in the future. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on butter in China face a number of questions.Which countries are supplying butter to China? How important is China compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of butter vary from one country of origin to another in China?On the supply side, China also exports butter.Which countries receive the most exports from China? How are these exports concentrated across buyers?What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for butter in China.With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view.Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.Icon Group has developed a proprietary methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for butter for those countries serving China via exports, or supplying from China via imports.It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. ... Read more

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Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s.

Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change.

With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm. ... Read more

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Finally, an academic who puts it into words so the rest of us can understand!Dragon in a Three Piece Suit tackles difficult issues in a way that is easily understandable to those of us who don't study economic systems full-time but are interested in learning about them. Guthrie manages to write a compelling work that is simply eloquent - a book that appeals to both academics and the regular-Joe.I appreciated his insights and predictions regarding Chinese economic reform. ... Read more

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This report puts executives and strategic planners on the fast track.The first chapter describes the study's methodology.The second chapter gives an overview of how to strategically access the market, mid-term forecasts of latent demand and accessibility benchmarks.The remaining nine chapters are not industry specific, but instead discuss economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Combined, the information provided in this market study is a "one-stop" shop for the strategic planner. Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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This report puts executives and strategic planners on the fast track.The first chapter describes the study's methodology.The second chapter gives an overview of how to strategically access the market, mid-term forecasts of latent demand and accessibility benchmarks.The remaining nine chapters are not industry specific, but instead discuss economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Combined, the information provided in this market study is a "one-stop" shop for the strategic planner. Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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This report puts executives and strategic planners on the fast track.The first chapter describes the study's methodology.The second chapter gives an overview of how to strategically access the market, mid-term forecasts of latent demand and accessibility benchmarks.The remaining nine chapters are not industry specific, but instead discuss economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Combined, the information provided in this market study is a "one-stop" shop for the strategic planner. Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum in China face a number of questions.Which countries are supplying buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum to China? How important is China compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum vary from one country of origin to another in China?On the supply side, China also exports buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum.Which countries receive the most exports from China? How are these exports concentrated across buyers?What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum in China.With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view.Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.Icon Group has developed a proprietary methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum for those countries serving China via exports, or supplying from China via imports.It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. ... Read more

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This report puts executives and strategic planners on the fast track.The first chapter describes the study's methodology.The second chapter gives an overview of how to strategically access the market, mid-term forecasts of latent demand and accessibility benchmarks.The remaining nine chapters are not industry specific, but instead discuss economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Combined, the information provided in this market study is a "one-stop" shop for the strategic planner. Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Unique in its systematic exploration of the characteristics of scholarly communication outside the West, this book examines how countries and regions in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan) have reacted to the innovations in the conduct of research and in the exchange of ideas. It outlines the traditional systems of scholarly exchange in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and concentrates on the efforts of these countries to provide revolutionary ways of writing, publishing, and reading information produced by members of the academic community. Each chapter is written by experts from each country/region covered and discusses the achievements and challenges in the process of technology innovations, highlighting the practices in scholarly communication in this part of the world. ... Read more

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In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have occasionally been asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services in China. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within China and the extent to which China might be used as a point of distribution within Asia. From an economic perspective, however, China does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries, rather, it represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another.

In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for China over the next five years for hundreds of industries, categories and products. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by China when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. For many items, latent demand is clearly observable in sales, as in the case for food or housing items. Consider, however, the category "satellite launch vehicles". Clearly, there are no launch pads in China used by the space industry to launch satellites. However, the core benefit of the vehicles (e.g. telecommunications, etc.) is "consumed" by the area served by China. Without China, in other words, the market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the population in China, Asia, or the world in general. One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to both Asia and China. ... Read more

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In performing various economic analyses for its clients, I have occasionally been asked to investigate the market potential for various products and services in China. The purpose of the studies is to understand the density of demand within China and the extent to which China might be used as a point of distribution within Asia. From an economic perspective, however, China does not represent a population within rigid geographical boundaries, rather, it represents an area of dominant influence over markets in adjacent areas. This influence varies from one industry to another, but also from one period of time to another. In what follows, I summarize the economic potential for China over the next five years for hundreds of industries, categories and products. The goal of this report is to report my findings on the real economic potential, or what an economist calls the latent demand, represented by China when defined as an area of dominant influence. The reader needs to realize that latent demand may or may not represent real sales. For many items, latent demand is clearly observable in sales, as in the case for food or housing items. Consider, however, the category "satellite launch vehicles". Clearly, there are no launch pads in China used by the space industry to launch satellites. However, the core benefit of the vehicles (e.g. telecommunications, etc.) is "consumed" by the area served by China. Without China, in other words, the market for satellite launch vehicles would be lower for the population in China, Asia, or the world in general. One needs to allocate, therefore, a portion of the worldwide economic demand for launch vehicles to both Asia and China. The data presented are the result of various spatial econometric and time-series forecasting models which, for each category presented, are applied to forecast and allocate latent demand across all countries of the world and major distribution centers or centers of dominant influence within each country. This is accomplished knowing that economic fundamentals (e.g. income) generally vary from one country to another within a given country over time. In this report, I report the allocation for each category for China as an area of dominant influence in Asia and, potentially, the world. ... Read more

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Title: Demystifying Japan's economic recovery: a tale of its structural reform.
Author: Jun Kurihara
Publication: Business Economics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 3Page: 29(7)

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