Economic Statistics

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07APR 2024
Economic Statistics
Globales China – wie sich China in der Welt positioniert
Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe des China-Insituts an der Universität Frankfurt hält Frau Prof. Dr. Bréard einen Vortrag zum Thema: Die chinesische Zahlenfabrik: Statistik im Spannungsfeld zwischen internationalen Standards und „chinesischen Eigenschaften“ Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat China wiederholt Anstrengungen unternommen, um explizit internationalen Standards entgegenzutreten, sowohl in der statistischen Methodik als auch […]Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe des China-Insituts an der Universität Frankfurt hält Frau Prof. Dr. Bréard einen Vortrag zum Thema: Die chinesische Zahlenfabrik: Statistik im Spannungsfeld zwischen internationalen Standards und „chinesischen Eigenschaften“ Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat China wiederholt Anstrengungen unternommen, um explizit internationalen Standards entgegenzutreten, sowohl in der statistischen Methodik als auch […]
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15MAY 2022
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Propagating Agricultural Tools in the Mao Era
The application of various technologies for plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting were propagated as better tools than manual labor particularly in the early years of the PRC. In a very obvious way the superiority of tractors in agricultural production is acknowledged in the image here. While a single peasant can dig up 0.2 mu (1 […]
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28APR 2022
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The View by Ziang Liu
Dr. Liu Ziang has published a new Op-Ed in the South China Morning Post entitled China’s plan to unify its domestic market will create cohesion, but at the expense of local needs. It is in reaction to the Chinese government’s “Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Unified Domestic Market” released on April 10 and builds upon his […]
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24JAN 2022
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China’s alleged success in poverty alleviation
Absolute poverty is a global problem and its alleviation is set on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by the UN. China is said to have reached this goal as early as the end of 2020. President Xi Jinping officially declared in February 2021 that China achieved the eradication of absolute poverty in all its […]
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10JAN 2022
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Precarious Predictions – how many “ifs” does it take?
On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics : If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks in China, leading to more frequent lockdowns. If the restrictions were as severe as those […]
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