Emerging Markets – 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

New book on metropolitan governance

My co-edited book with Bligh Grant at University of Technology Sydney and Lin Ye at Sun Yat-Sen University is finally out! Titled “Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim: Borders, Challenges, Futures”, it features a collection of diverse chapters from that region. Check it out on Springer website here

Global Partnership for Better Cities

This is a GSU-led efforts that convene partners from South Africa and Hong Kong to discuss common urban challenges facing cities around the world. A three day conference and site visits brought many perspectives and ideas for future dialogue. See here for more information and here for the great pictures of comparison cities our libraryContinue reading “Global Partnership for Better Cities”

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”