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Taking the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as an iconic turning-point and exploring key themes such as economic reform and sustainability, innovation and sustainability, globalisation and social development, this book analyses the prospects for sustainab.

Introduction / Shujie Yao. [et al.] -- 1. Development of the Chinese private sector over the past 30 years : retrospect and prospect / Hongliang Zheng and Yang Yang -- 2. Cost-profit efficiency and governance effects of commercial banks in China 1995-2005 / Chunxia Jiang and Shujie Yao -- 3. Regional inequalities in China : a non-monetary view / Stephen L. Morgan and Fang Su -- 4. Low-carbon China : the role of international collaboration / David Tyfield and James Wilsdon -- 5. Effects of policy measures on energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in China's road transport sector / Xiaoyu Yan and Roy Crookes -- 6. Social networks, innovation and the development of industrial clusters in China / Jinmin Wang -- 7. Globalization and the seafarers supply in China / Bin Wu and Shujie Yao -- 8. China's diaspora and returnees : the impact on China's globalization process / Huiyao Wang and David Zweig -- 9. Corporate social responsibility in China's largest transnational corporations / Dylan Sutherland and Glen Whelan -- 10. Nationalism versus democracy : China's bloggers and the Western media / David K. Herold.

As the dominant site and sign of human settlement, the city exemplifies and displays the fundamental concerns of the human condition in the twenty-first century. Just as urban living concentrates people in close proximity, the city clusters cliches and sermons, critiques and self-serving assurances. The world's most livable cities are well-planned and prosperous. Slums are disgusting. Congestion causes road rage. Cities are at the center of this man-made maelstrom. For all their vibrancy and liveliness, cities face a growing challenge to provide secure and sustainable places to live. Taking into account the different domains of social life, the planners and residents of Porto Alegre have restructured the way in which the city responds to slum dwellers. Instead of their walking long distances to collect rubbish, and bringing it back to their homes to sort out for recycling on their lounge-room floors, the city now brings the rubbish to newly built recycling centers near the homes of previous and continuing slum dwellers. Adapted from the source document.

The study of policy reform has tended to focus on single‐stage reforms taking place over a relatively short period. Recent research has drawn attention to gradual policy changes unfolding over extended periods. One strategy of gradual change is layering, in which new policy dimensions are introduced by adding new policy instruments or by redesigning existing ones to address new concerns. The limited research on single‐stage policy reforms highlights that these may not endure in the postenactment phase when circumstances change. We argue that gradual policy layering may create sustainability dynamics that can result in lasting reform trajectories. TheEuropeanUnion'sCommonAgriculturalPolicy (CAP) has changed substantially over the last three decades in response to emerging policy concerns by adding new layers. This succession of reforms proved durable and resilient to reversal in the lead‐up to the 2013CAPreform when institutional and political circumstances changed.

The study of policy reform has tended to focus on single-stage reforms taking place over a relatively short period. Recent research has drawn attention to gradual policy changes unfolding over extended periods. One strategy of gradual change is layering, in which new policy dimensions are introduced by adding new policy instruments or by redesigning existing ones to address new concerns. The limited research on single-stage policy reforms highlights that these may not endure in the postenactment phase when circumstances change. We argue that gradual policy layering may create sustainability dynamics that can result in lasting reform trajectories. The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has changed substantially over the last three decades in response to emerging policy concerns by adding new layers. This succession of reforms proved durable and resilient to reversal in the lead-up to the 2013 CAP reform when institutional and political circumstances changed.

The study of policy reform has tended to focus on single-stage reforms taking place over a relatively short period. Recent research has drawn attention to gradual policy changes unfolding over extended periods. One strategy of gradual change is layering, in which new policy dimensions are introduced by adding new policy instruments or by redesigning existing ones to address new concerns. The limited research on single-stage policy reforms highlights that these may not endure in the postenactment phase when circumstances change. We argue that gradual policy layering may create sustainability dynamics that can result in lasting reform trajectories. The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has changed substantially over the last three decades in response to emerging policy concerns by adding new layers. This succession of reforms proved durable and resilient to reversal in the lead-up to the 2013 CAP reform when institutional and political circumstances changed.

This study is highly selective and organized into four thematic chapters. Specifically, chapter 1 provides a snapshot of Burundi's political and macroeconomic context, and reviews the evolution of the decentralization process to better understand how institutional, political, and bureaucratic dynamics have shaped the historical trajectory of decentralization and generated the outcomes observed today. Chapter 2 provides a systematic investigation of the status of fiscal decentralization in Burundi, and identifies key policy issues to be considered to ensure the medium-term sustainability of the reform process while at the same time addressing the short-term financial needs of communes. Chapter 3 provides an in-depth diagnostic of a key service delivery responsibility recently devolved to communes—the provision of land registration services—and discusses the challenges and opportunities related to ongoing efforts to scale up access to these land services across 116 rural communes and Bujumbura. Chapter 4 shifts the focus to the nature of statecitizen relations in an effort to better understand how citizen engagement in the decision-making process may be improved and local authorities held accountable for the provision of basic services.