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This book mainly addresses China’s current demographic situation and social people-related policies. It aims to solve the issues of demographic transition, population aging, population flow, urbanization, population quality, etc. China is the first large population country, with the vast territory and the huge economic system. It has many issues such as productivity and production relations, superstructure and economic base, and domestic and international relations in various fields and at all levels. Hence, China needs to come up with a set of overall strategies. The author sorts out all of his works in recent years and performs his new academic achievements on demographic issues and social governing strategies. This timely book offers new methods that impact advanced social development with real data.

Population—Economic aspects. --- Economic history. --- Population Economics. --- Economy-wide Country Studies. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics

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At the University of Rhode Island over 25% of engineering undergraduates simultaneously complete a second degree in German, French, Spanish, or Chinese. They furthermore spend an entire year abroad, one semester as exchange students at a partner university and six months as professional engineering interns at a cooperating company. With a close-to 100% placement rate, over 400 graduates, and numerous national awards, the URI International Engineering Program (IEP) is a proven path of preparation for young engineers in today's global workplace. The author of this volume, John Grandin, is an emeritus professor of German who developed and led the IEP for twenty-three years. In these pages, he provides a two-pronged approach to explain the origin and history of this program rooted in such an unusual merger of two traditionally distinct higher education disciplines. He looks first at himself to explain how and why he became an international educator and what led him to his lasting passion for the IEP. He then provides an historical overview of the program's origin and growth, including looks at the bumps and bruises and ups and downs along the way. Grandin hopes that this story will be of use and value to other educators determined to reform higher education and align it with the needs of the 21st Century. Table of Contents: How I became a Professor of German / My Unexpected Path to Engineering / Building a Network of Support / Sidetracked by a Stint in the Dean's Office / Reshaping the Language Mission / Struggling to Institutionalize / Partnering with Universities Abroad / Going into the Hotel and Restaurant Business / Taking the Lead Nationally / Building the Chinese IEP / Staying Involved after Retirement / The Broader Message for Higher Education / Conclusions.

Engineering. --- Technology. --- History. --- Economic history. --- Religion. --- Technology and Engineering. --- History of Technology. --- Economy-wide Country Studies.

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Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity across industries producing tradable goods and services. This came about primarily as a result of investment in equipment and other fixed assets, but also entailed substantial gains in total factor productivity Based on data from two waves of the Uganda Business Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew at average annual rates of 13 t and 3 percent, respectively between survey years 2002 and 2009. Part of the growth in productivity on each measure reflected gains from technical progress made at the establishment level and within narrowly defined industries. But it was also in part the outcome of reallocation of labor and capital within as well as across industries. In particular, the paper estimates that about one-fifth of the aggregate growth in labor productivity between the two years reflected the shifting of labor toward industries and sectors where it was more productive on average and at the margin. The rest of the observed growth in labor productivity reflected gains made within narrowly defined industries. But almost in every case 55 to 90 percent of the observed "within industry" growth in labor productivity represented allocative efficiency gains from the correction of intra-industry inter-firm misallocation of labor. The balance of the observed within-industry growth in labor productivity represented establishment-level gains in technical efficiency.

Economic Development --- Economic Growth And Aggregate Productivity --- Economy Wide Country Studies --- Industrialization --- Manufacturing And Service Industries

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Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work through collaboration and mobility. Its biggest challenge to engineers, however, is more fundamental and difficult: to better understand what they know and value qua engineers and why. This volume reports an experimental effort to help sixteen engineering educators produce ""personal geographies"" describing what led them to make risky career commitments to international and global engineering education. The contents of their diverse trajectories stand out in extending far beyond the narrower image of producing globally-competent engineers. Their personal geographies repeatedly highlight experiences of incongruence beyond home countries that provoked them to see themselves and understand their knowledge differently. The experiences were sufficiently profound to motivate them to design educational experiences that could provoke engineering students in similar ways. For nine engineers, gaining new international knowledge challenged assumptions that engineering work and life are limited to purely technical practices, compelling explicit attention to broader value commitments. For five non-engineers and two hybrids, gaining new international knowledge fueled ambitions to help engineering students better recognize and critically examine the broader value commitments in their work. A background chapter examines the historical emergence of international engineering education in the United States, and an epilogue explores what it might take to integrate practices of critical self-analysis more systematically in the education and training of engineers. Two appendices and two online supplements describe the unique research process that generated these personal geographies, especially the workshop at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in which authors were prohibited from participating in discussions of their manuscripts. Table of Contents: Communicating Across Cultures: Humanities in the International Education of Engineers (Bernd Widdig) / Linking Language Proficiency and the Professions (Michael Nugent) / Language, Life, and Pathways to Global Competency for Engineers (and Everyone Else) (Phil McKnight) / Bridging Two worlds (John M. Grandin) / Opened Eyes: From Moving Up to Helping Students See (Gayle G. Elliott) / What is Engineering for? A Search for Engineering beyond Militarism and Free-markets (Juan Lucena) / Location, Knowledge, and Desire: From Two Conservatisms to Engineering Cultures and Countries (Gary Lee Downey) / Epilogue - Beyond Global Competence: Implications for Engineering Pedagogy (Gary Lee Downey).

Engineering. --- Technology. --- History. --- Economic history. --- Religion. --- Technology and Engineering. --- History of Technology. --- Economy-wide Country Studies.

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Dieses Buch versucht, einen umfassenden Überblick über die industriellen Prozesse großer Volkswirtschaften und ihrer Integration in der Welt zu geben. Es bietet einen Einblick in die Industrialisierungsfortschritte des Quartetts USA, China, Deutschland und Japan, die alle durch unterschiedliche handels-, steuer- und industriepolitische Maßnahmen individuelle Industrialisierungserfolge erzielten, deren grundlegende Prinzipien auf die zivilisatorischen Wurzeln der jeweiligen Nation zurückgeführt werden können. Die Kombination ihrer Industrieproduktion führte zu einer integrierten Form der internationalen industriellen Verteilung. Das derzeitige Verteilungsmuster ist zwar hochproduktiv, führt aber zu einer ungleichen Verteilung der Gewinne auf verschiedene Regionen, Branchen und gesellschaftliche Gruppen innerhalb der einzelnen teilnehmenden Nationen und zwischen den beteiligten Volkswirtschaften. Um die ungleiche Verteilung des Nutzens sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf internationaler Ebene anzugehen, haben die großen Industrieländer eine Vielzahl von politischen Maßnahmen ergriffen, die sich auf das industrielle Ökosystem und Ergebnisse von Finanzportfolios auswirken werden. Das Buch soll den Lesern helfen, bessere Anlagestrategien und ein solides Risikomanagement im Kontext der Ungewissheit zu entwickeln und in den kommenden Jahren erfolgreich durch unruhige Gewässer zu navigieren. Xiaojiang Zhang arbeitete bei verschiedenen großen globalen Finanzinstituten in den Bereichen Devisen, festverzinsliche Wertpapiere, Derivatehandel und Portfoliomanagement. Autor von Capital Markets Trading and Investment Strategies in China, erschienen bei Springer im Jahr 2018. Autor von Mechanical Analysis of China's Macro Economic Structure, erschienen bei Springer im Jahr 2020. Zweimaliger Gewinner des Top Economic Think Tank Award. Dieses Buch ist eine Übersetzung einer deutschen Originalausgabe. Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz (maschinelle Übersetzung durch den Dienst DeepL.com) erstellt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt, so dass sich das Buch stilistisch anders liest als eine herkömmliche Übersetzung.

International economic relations. --- Economic history. --- International Economics. --- Economy-wide Country Studies. --- Economic History.