Dilemas do desenvolvimento na China: crescimento acelerado e disparidades regionais (da Revolução Comunista à globalização)
Because China´s outstanding economic performance in the last three decades is seenas an imitative experience for the whole developing countries, this paper aims tobring evidences on the fact that Chinese-style economic success can not be appliedinstantaneously for other countries. The lines presented here can be used as a warningfor Brazilian policy-makers not to abandon the idea that government intervention ?like many liberal thinkers had predicted widespread recently ? is always harmful forthe economy. In fact, the opposite has been proved more beneficial with publicaction more intensely required in these present days of economic globalization.China´s state intervention in the production factors (capital, investment and labor)has been steady and decisive to achieve the observed growth rates as well as goingahead with the modernization of economic structures. Meanwhile, there have beenundesirable results concerned with increasing regional inequalities. The creation ofspecial economic zones (SEZ´s) to attract foreign investment to coastal areas resultedin strong concentration of industrial plants in the coastal region widening regionalper capita income gaps.
The Anatomy of Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China
Abstract A labor market is beginning to emerge in urban China during a period of rapid growth and changed labor supply. In this paper, we investigate how earnings inequality and relative earnings have changed between 1988 and 1995 using two large samples covering 10 provinces. The results verify that, as expected, earnings inequality has increased rapidly. The expansion can be traced to two components, the basic wage and subsidies. The analysis shows that the growth in earnings inequality is not limited to certain segments of the labor force but affects all categories as defined by ownership sector, region, and education. J. Comp. Econ. , March 2001 29 (1), pp. 118–135. Department of Social Work, University of Goteborg, P.O. Box 720, SE 405 30 Goteborg, Sweden; and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany; and Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2 Yuetan Beixiaojie, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Copyright 2001 Academic Press. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: J31, O18, O53, P23.
Daily weather variables and affective disorder admissions to psychiatric hospitals
Numerous studies have reported that admission rates in patients with affective disorders are subject to seasonal variation. Notwithstanding, there has been limited evaluation of the degree to which changeable daily meteorological patterns influence affective disorder admission rates. A handful of small studies have alluded to a potential link between psychiatric admission rates and meteorological variables such as environmental temperature (heat waves in particular), wind direction and sunshine. We used the Kruskal-Wallis test, ARIMA and time-series regression analyses to examine whether daily meteorological variables—namely wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, rainfall, hours of sunshine, sunlight radiation and temperature—influence admission rates for mania and depression across 12 regions in Ireland over a 31-year period. Although we found some very weak but interesting trends for barometric pressure in relation to mania admissions, daily meteorological patterns did not appear to affect hospital admissions overall for mania or depression. Our results do not support the small number of papers to date that suggest a link between daily meteorological variables and affective disorder admissions. Further study is needed.