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Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990's, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering.This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity

China. --- Corporations, Government. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Government business enterprises. --- Real estate management. --- Tianjin. --- Tianjin (China) - Commercial policy. --- Government business enterprises --- Government corporations --- Entrepreneurship --- Real estate management --- International Commerce --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Corporations, Government --- Case studies. --- Case studies --- Tianjin (China) --- Commercial policy. --- Property management --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Authorities, Public (Government corporations) --- Federal corporations --- Government-owned corporations --- Public authorities (Government corporations) --- Public corporations (Government corporations) --- Nationalized companies --- Parastatals --- Public enterprises --- State-owned enterprises --- Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) --- Tienchin (China) --- Tʻien-chin (China) --- Tʻien-chin-shih (China) --- Tien-tsin (China) --- Tenshin (China) --- Tientsin (China) --- Ṭiyeng'in (China) --- Tianjin Municipality (China) --- Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Tianjing (China) --- Tianjin Shi (China) --- Tʻien-ching (China) --- Tʻien-ching-shih (China) --- Tiensen (China) --- Tientsin Municipality (China) --- Tiensin (China) --- Ṭientszin (China) --- Apartment houses --- Housing --- Office buildings --- Real estate business --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Corporations --- Business enterprises --- 天津 (China)

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Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe, Jane Duckett argues that the state's retreat from health in China was not a simple consequence of economic policies and market reform. Just as important were the influences of health policies, reform era political institutions, communist party ideology, and bureaucratic stakeholders.

Medical policy --- Medical care

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There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisation for developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussions and over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and cultural openness from the perspective of the public in four developing or 'transitional' countries: Vietnam, (South) Korea, the Czech Republic and Ukraine (both before and after the Orange Revolution). It finds many supporters of opening up, but also many who are discontented with its downsides and who expect states to tackle the exploitation and unfairness that accompany it. Among the most fervent enemies of openness there is support not just for peaceful public protest to tackle the problems it brings, but for violence or sabotage. The methodology provides a unique opportunity for the public in developing countries to 'speak with their own voices' about markets and openness - and highlights the subtlety, ambiguity, tensions, conflicts and emotion that statistics alone fail to capture.

Free enterprise --- Free markets --- Laissez-faire --- Markets, Free --- Private enterprise --- Economic policy --- Public opinion. --- Vietnam --- Korea (South) --- Czech Republic --- Ukraine --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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