All Roads Lead to China: Business News, Analysis, and Insights from China

Spending the Chinese New Year in Shanghai is a great time to get things done. Anyone who is from Shanghai is with their family, the majority of others from outside Shanghai will return to their hometowns, and the foreigners typically go to Thailand or Philippines to get some sun.

What that leaves me with is a city without traffic, lines, or other noise pollution that gets in the way of my productivity.

It really is one of the best times of the year to be in Shanghai (especially since the weather is do darn nice now), and I can get a lot of reading done

So for this week, here is my list of things to read:

1) Books

• Will the Boat Sink the Water – Report of peasant life in China
• A Perfect Mess – Finding order in chaos – I am sure there are going to be a lot of lessons for me here

2) Macro China

• OECD – OECD Investment Policy Review
• ADB – Asian Development Outlook 2006: People’s Republic of China
• UNDP – UNDP China Country Programme Document 2006-2010
• China in the World Economy (Berkeley);

3) Issue Specific – For Profit

• Finance – Financial Reform and Corporate Governance in China (PDF – MIT); China’s Financial Reform: Achievements and Challenges (PDF – Berkeley); Anonymous Banking and Financial Repression (PDF – Stanford); Financial Sector Reform in China (PDF – Harvard)

• Real Estate – Asymmetric Property Rights in China’s; Economic Growth (PDF- AEA Web); New Policies, New Opportunities -Impact on Foreign Investment (PDF – Kind and Wood); 2007/01 Greater China Office and Residential Market Overview (PDF – Colliers)

• Logistics – A Study on Major Third-Party Logistics Providers in China (PDF – Nat’l Univ of Singapore); China Distribution & Trading (PDF – IDS Logistics); CBRE Research (PDF – CB Richard Ellis); Integration of China’s Intermodal Freight Transportation (PDF); China’s New Great Leap Forward (PDF)

• Second Tier – Geography,Economic Policy,and Regional Development in China (PDF – Earth Institute); Stages of Economic Development (PDF – Columbia); Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China (PDF – Int’l Food Policy & Research Ist.); Development, Chinese Style (PDF – MIT); Social Unrest in China (PDF- Foreign Ag Service); Demographic Dividend and Prospects for Economic Development in China (PDF – UN)

4) Issue Specific – Non Profit

• Elderly – International Experience and Pension Reform in China (PDF – 1990 Institute);China faces elderly dilemma; Primary Family Caregivers of Impaired Elderly in Shanghai; Chinese elderly patients’ perceptions of their rehabilitation (PDF); Nutrition of elderly people in China (PDF – Blackwell Synergy); Rural-Urban Economic Disparities among China’s Elderly (PDF –

• Migrant – Migrant Women Workers and The Emerging Civil Society in China (PDF – Asia Foundation); Falling through the floor cover (PDF – China Labor); How Migrant Labor Is Changing Rural China (PDF – Cambridge); Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in China (PDF – Irmgard Coninx Stiftung)

• Environment –Environment and People’s Health in China (PDF – WHO); China’s Environmental Crisis (Council on Foreign Relations); China: Environmental Issues (PDF – Dept. of Energy); China: Environmental Protection and Global Cooperation (PDF -NIRA); China’s Environmental Crisis: Opening Up Opportunities (PDF – China Balance Sheet)

• Healthcare – China’s Population Trends (PDF – Population Reference Bureau); China’s Consumer Market: Opportunities and Risks (PDF – Deloitte); Opportunities in Chinese Mkts (PPT – Pac Bridge Medical); Hygienic Situation & the Opportunities in China (PDF – ); Healthcare in China: Toward greater access, efficiency and … (IBM)

• Corporate Governance – Financial Reform and Corporate Governance in China (PDF – MIT);Corporate Governance in China An Investor Perspective (PDF – Inst. of International Finance); Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China (PDF – IFC);

• Education – The Reform of Higher Agricultural Education Institutions in China (PDF -UNESCO); Chinese Migrant Children Face Educational Hurdles (PBS)

I hope you all enjoy the reading… and please make sure to use double sided printing !!!