Abstract/Sommario: Chinese universities' rush to expand and generate more revenue has led to some dubious practices, admitting less-qualified but higher-paying students. Foreign study , may be a way out for the small number who are rich enough for pay for it, but it is no solution for China as a whole. China's universities, devastated during the Maoist era and in the 1980s and 1990s, cannot compete with those of the West. In their effort to make Universities more competitive, foreign universities are all ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Chinese universities' rush to expand and generate more revenue has led to some dubious practices, admitting less-qualified but higher-paying students. Foreign study , may be a way out for the small number who are rich enough for pay for it, but it is no solution for China as a whole. China's universities, devastated during the Maoist era and in the 1980s and 1990s, cannot compete with those of the West. In their effort to make Universities more competitive, foreign universities are allowed to partner with Chinese ones. Since 1995 more than 700 academic programs were established: US account for more than 150, Nottingham University opened its Nottingham Campus in Zheijiang Province; Liverpool University opened its Xi'an Jiaotong University. A foreign university that wants to set up shop in China must find a Chinese partner -an educational company or university- and cannot take any profits, but they can receive payments for services they render to the joint venture.
Abstract/Sommario: China's land reform can help hundred of millions of China's poor. First, in the absence of a land registry, a throughout survey is required. Establishing a public record of the extent and ownership of land will be no easy task. With 200 million farming families, each tilling an average five plots to be demarcated, there are around one million plots to be demarcated. With multiple local boundary changes, informal agreements, and rapacious local officers conducting the survey, the scope ...; [Leggi tutto...]
China's land reform can help hundred of millions of China's poor. First, in the absence of a land registry, a throughout survey is required. Establishing a public record of the extent and ownership of land will be no easy task. With 200 million farming families, each tilling an average five plots to be demarcated, there are around one million plots to be demarcated. With multiple local boundary changes, informal agreements, and rapacious local officers conducting the survey, the scope for disputes and rent-seeking behaviour is immense. Second, on the basis of the complete survey, the government will have to issue binding contracts (or land titles) to the households. The new policy directives are clear on how to do this: new titled contracts are supposed to be allocated according to the current distribution of use right, which for most villages took place in the late 1990s in the form of 30 years contracts). Many villages are considering the possibility of again re-dividing the land according to some egalitarian rule. Third and most important priority, is a change in the law. Farmers collective land rights are inferior to state land rights: this allows any level of authorized government to acquire land by taking the collective land and converting it by executive fiat into state land. In the past the peasant farer was tossed aside by the development juggernaut, this new system would give them a substantial stake in the process, and the capacity to negotiate. Finally, rules of ownership must be agreed and announced
Abstract/Sommario: Steel plant project by South Korean steelmaker POSCO is a dream for Orissa, one of India's poorest States. Other investors are exploring possibilities : Tata Steel, Vedanta Aluminia . Orissa is home to about a third of India's high-grade iron ore reserves and rich in chromite, nichel, bauxite and coal. POSCO project of building the steel plant by 2016 is yet to take off: it is a fiasco. Much of the conflict with the State government is due to POSCO's appetite for land (6,000 acres, 4, ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Steel plant project by South Korean steelmaker POSCO is a dream for Orissa, one of India's poorest States. Other investors are exploring possibilities : Tata Steel, Vedanta Aluminia . Orissa is home to about a third of India's high-grade iron ore reserves and rich in chromite, nichel, bauxite and coal. POSCO project of building the steel plant by 2016 is yet to take off: it is a fiasco. Much of the conflict with the State government is due to POSCO's appetite for land (6,000 acres, 4,000 have already been cleared by the Orissa government for the steel company). POSCO needs some additional 2,000 acres for building two townships, one for Koreans and the other for Indians for employees. To do so, 20,000 people living in these land should be disrupted. In addition, steel royalties are very low. Are Indian States averse to foreign investments? Not quite. People are against perceived concessions, which though legal, were given out according to outdated regulations, with the help of the state machinery