Still a huge lead for the United States, $18K higher than second-place United Kingdom. The numbers forItalyare especially depressing. Basically no growth for the entire 21st century. Since I’m sharing lots of data, I’ll also include the World Bank’schartfor the “G-8”, which is the...
Wu H, Xia Y, Yang X, Hao Y, Ren S (2021a) Does environmental pollution promote China’s crime rate? A new perspective through government official corruption. Struct Chang Econ Dyn 57:292–307 Article Google Scholar Wu H, Hao Y, Ren S, Yang X, Xie G (2021b) Does internet developm...
Public supervision. Citizens, legal persons and other organizations supervise the performance of state organs and their staff. They can request administrative review, initiate administrative litigation, or file complaints or charges with supervisory organs against any misconduct or crime involving dereliction...
Laos strongly supports China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and the initiative has been producing tangible benefits for the country, a high-ranking Lao official has said. Internet cooperation benefits countries along the Belt and Road "The Belt and Road brings us together, and we address challen...
There was a large gap between the world ranking of China’s national quality and its economic strength, especially between 2007 and 2014, during which the ranking of China’s national quality declined despite its growing economic strength [1]. National quality is a basic quality that can shape...
Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes. Photograph: Dan Winters; Illustrations: James Graham ...
In contemporary China, sexual minorities (SMs) are still a marginalized community. Prior studies have accorded SMs a great deal of attention, but little research has been conducted on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people in Chi
The second-ranking keyword is “active justice.” Professor Zhang Qi, retired Peking University law professor of legal theory, was invited to explain this phrase. He said active justice means that in the New Era, courts will implement the central government’s decision-making and deployment, base...
While Amendment VIII to the Criminal Law raised hopes that China would begin to crack down on overseas bribery, there had until late 2023 been no published decisions on the crime of bribery of foreign public officials and international public organization officials since the creation of the offence...
India’s president Modi famously promised at the beginning of his first administration that he would improve the country’s ranking in the World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” Index from the high 120s to the 50s, and it appears that he will achieve it. Brazil, which has made no ...