China – Dr. Cathy Yang Liu

JUA Special Issue: China’s New Urban Realities and Development Policies

In this open access special issue, we assembled a series of articles on China’s integrated urban-rural development policy, fiscal decentralization, job-housing balance, local government-firm connection, new housing investment, and infrastructure capital investment. Please follow link here

Hong Kong Conference Marathon

Was in Hong Kong for two urban conferences co-organized by GSU and Hong Kong Baptist University: The International Conference on Polarisation, Fragmentation and Resilience: Four Urban Contexts Compared (link here) and Global Partnership for Better Cities – Hong Kong Sandpit (link here). Comparative is the way to go for urban research!

A New Wave of Chinese Urban Entrepreneurs

Our recently published article portrays a new wave of Chinese Urban Entrepreneurs: the overall self-employment rate is about 9 percent in 2007 across selected Chinese cities. As compared to wage workers, they tend to have lower human capital endowments, but greater income potential. The full article can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/grow.12117/abstract

Science & Innovation Policy and the Middle Class

I entered two somewhat unfamiliar domains these several days as I attend two conferences here in Atlnata as presenter and discussant: The Science & Innovation Policy Conference hosted by Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy and a Middle Class Phenomenon in Emerging Markets Conference hosted by Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business. As different as they sound,Continue reading “Science & Innovation Policy and the Middle Class”