The expansion of Chinese banks along the routes of the Belt and Road Initiative: Following customers and geopolitical relations

Existing studies on the global expansion of banks have been mostly based on the experience of the banks from more developed economies, while little is known about the geographies of internationalization of banks from less developed countries. The expansion of Chinese banks, with state-owned commercial banks in the lead, has been accelerating since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed in 2013. This study contributes to existing research by providing new evidence and explanations based on the case of expansion of Chinese banks along the BRI routes. Chinese banks started to expand from Hong Kong and Macao, then expanded to Southeast Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, and finally reached Central Asia and other regions. The branches of Chinese banks are mainly clustered in Southeast Asian countries rather than other regions. Similar to their Western counterparts, Chinese bank branches are inclined to agglomerate in international or regional financial hubs. The regression analysis shows that two factors are crucial in explaining the spatial distribution of Chinese banks along the routes of the BRI. First, Chinese banks are likely to follow their customers, namely, state-owned firms from the non-financial sectors making direct investments in overseas regions. Second, Chinese banks are more inclined to open branches in countries that have good geopolitical relations with China reflecting the challenging international environment for Chinese banks to seek global expansion.     

2000—2017年中亚地区植被变化遥感监测

中亚地区植被对保障区域生态安全和“新丝绸之路经济带”建设具有重要作用,然而气候如何影响植被在中亚地区的生长模式尚不清楚。基于2000—2017年中亚地区遥感植被指数,结合气象、地形和中亚人口数据,研究了近18年中亚地区植被的时空分布规律和变化趋势,确定了植被变化与不同因子的相关性并大致预测植被未来长势。结果表明,2000—2017年中亚地区整体植被呈降低趋势,主要分布在中部和西南部且植被沿山脉分布,西坡比东坡植被长势旺盛。2010年整体植被由退化趋势转变成改善趋势。降水和温度对植被生长均有促进作用,但植被对降水的响应比温度的更敏感。未来中亚地区植被整体上呈现改善的趋势。此外,不同地理分区,人类活动对植被也有一定程度影响。     

论长江经济带农业绿色发展

长江经济带发展是中国正在实施的五大区域协调发展战略之一。“生态优先、绿色发展”、“共抓大保护、不搞大开发”已成为长江经济带发展的主旋律和鲜明导向。长江经济带农业在中国农业及整个经济发展战略中占有极其重要的战略地位和举足轻重的作用。推动长江经济带农业绿色发展,已成为长江经济带绿色发展的重要内容和有力抓手,是全国上下共同面临的紧迫任务。当前,长江经济带农业绿色发展面临着诸多问题与挑战,如资源浪费、生态破坏、环境污染、灾害频发和农业生态系统退化等。为实现长江经济带农业绿色发展,应针对上述问题采取以下对策与措施：（1）充分利用耕地,全年绿色覆盖;（2）减少化肥施用,扩大生物养地;（3）加强绿色防控,实施生态减灾;（4）发展循环农业,“废物”再生利用;（5）实行“九良”配套,实现综合发展,即将良田、良制、良种、良法、良物、良境、良品、良策、良才相互协调和配合,共同推动长江经济带农业综合发展、全面发展、绿色发展、高质量发展和可持续发展。     

Inheritance of internal pigmentation in green cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. Capitata L.)

Summary Internal anthocyanin pigmentation (IP) in otherwise normally green cabbage occurs in a number of Oregon State University breeding lines. Extracted pigment, tested for spectral absorption and for color reactions with lead acetate and aluminium chloride, was similar but not necessarily identical to pigment extracted from red cabbage cultivar Redman. When IP line R52 was crossed with normal green line C70, the F₁, F₂ and backcross progenies indicated that IP at the intensity found in R52 was determined by a single factor in homozygous condition, with intermediate levels of IP expressed by the heterozygous genotypes. Modifying factors also appear to influence the level of IP. In the cross R52 (IP)×R51 (normal green), expression of IP in the F₁ was much reduced. The F₂ failed to fit the expected 3 IP: 1 green ratio due to an excess of green plants, but instead, closely fit a 9:7 ratio. This may have resulted from incomplete expression of IP because of modifiers, rather than from the effects of a second major gene. An allele at the A (anthocyanin) locus of B. oleracea is tentatively proposed and designated A ^IP or a ^IP pending further identification.Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper No. 4690.     

Construction of Silk Road Economic Belt and Industrial Selection of Minority Areas in Northwest China

Construction of Silk Road Economic Belt is a giant engine for the economic upgrading of China.Minority areas in Northwest China since then has become a forward position for the opening to the west,which is extremely significant for expanding the hinterland of Chinese economic development,activating economic development in inland and border areas,promoting the open economic development in central and west China,and also forming a new growth pole of Chinese economy.Optimization of industrial selection can promote economic development,constant economic growth of the northwest minority areas and the construction of Silk Road Economic Belt requires the optimization and adjustment of industrial selection,cultivation of competitive industries with market prospects,and formation of new economic growth points.Minority areas in northwest China have a vast territory and abundant resources that are all powerful support for the development of local competitive industries.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Cures, and Systemic Implications, by Morris Goldstein. Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection And Economic Integration, by Andre Dua and Daniel C. Esty. Institutions and Regional Labour Markets in Europe, by Lambert van der Laan and Santos M. Ruesga. Global Shift. Transforming the World Economy, 3rd Ed., by Peter Dicken. Environment, Health and Population Displacement, by Andrew E. Collins.     

Growth,Development and Yield of Crambe Abyssinica Under Saline Irrigation in the Greenhouse

Salinity is one of the major factors limiting agricultural productivity in arid and semi‐arid regions. Saline areas around the world are increasing and sources of fresh water are decreasing. The increasing importance of the use of brackish water to supplement regular irrigation has demonstrated a need for finding new potential plants with tolerance to irrigation with saline water which can be used in industrial agriculture. The aim of this study was to determine whether irrigation with brackish water of Crambe Abyssinica, a plant commonly used for industrial oil production and for ornamental purposes and with high economical value, especially in Central Asia and the Aral Sea region, is feasible. One more goal was to study how it influences growth and development, seed and oil yield and some physiological parameters such as photosynthesis, transpiration, chlorophyll content, osmotic potential and accumulation of fresh and dry weight. The effects of three salinity levels, 3, 6 and 9 dS m^?1, were investigated in a greenhouse experiment during two consecutive years. Results of this study showed that growth of Crambe abyssinica in arid zones and irrigation with mild saline water up to EC 6 dS m^?1, mostly common in these areas is feasible, suggesting tolerance to moderate salinity levels and feasibility of its culture in areas of the Aral Sea with adequate salinity levels. Consequently, in spite of the fact that biomass and seed yield were significantly decreased in plants irrigated with brackish water, Crambe abyssinica might be cultivated as an alternate source of green biomass and for industrial vegetable oil under conditions not suitable for conventional plant production.     

Expression levels of three bacterial blight resistance genes against K3a race of Korea by molecular and phenotype analysis in japonica rice (O. sativa L.)

Bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is a destructive disease of rice in the major rice growing countries of Asia. In 2003, a serious bacterial blight epidemic occurred in the southwestern coastal areas in Korea, causing significant yield loss due to the emergence of a new race, K3a. IR24 near-isogenic lines containing Xa4, xa5, Xa7 and Xa21 genes conferred different degrees of resistance to the most virulent K3a isolate, HB01009 in an inoculation experiment in the greenhouse. Expression levels of the resistance genes, Xa4, xa5 and Xa21 were studied in two F2 populations derived from the crosses between elite japonica cultivars and an advanced backcross breeding line possessing Xa4, xa5 and Xa21 genes. F₂ progenies segregated for K3a resistance (R) and susceptible (S) phenotypes in a ratio of 3(R):1(S) indicated that K3a resistance was controlled by a major dominant gene. Three PCR markers tightly linked to the resistance genes Xa4, xa5 and Xa21 confirmed the presence of the genes and their interaction with each gene. This study demonstrated that the Xa21 gene dominantly contributed to K3a resistance. However, the Xa4 gene also contributed to the full expression of resistance. The level of expression of strong resistance to K3a race was attributed to the presence of Xa21 and Xa4 genes irrespective of the presence of xa5 gene. Our results suggest that the R-gene combinations of Xa4+Xa21 could be a useful and effective strategy toward improving resistance to K3a race of Korean japonica cultivars.     

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Essential reading on Fujian
Y.M. Yeung and David K.Y. Chu ( 2000 ) Fujian: A Coastal Province in Transition and Transformation . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , pp . 544 , ISBN: 9622018750 . Foreign economic policy and economic development in Asia
Christopher M. Dent ( 2002 ) The Foreign Economic Policies of Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , pp . 330 , ISBN: 1‐84064‐838‐4 . Case studies of terrorism in the Asia‐Pacific region
D.M. Jones ( ed. ) ( 2004 ) Globalisation and the New Terror: The Asia Pacific Dimension . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , pp . 316 , ISBN: 1843764423 .     

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Book reviews in this article: Predictable Views The New Economics of Richard Nixon: Freezes, Floats, and Fiscal Policy by Roger LeRoy Miller and Raburn M. Williams. The Voice of the Dodo Let Me Say This about That: A Primer on NIXONomics by Ralph Jensen. An Authoritative Analysis Making Monetary and Fiscal Policy by G. L. Bach. Bullish on Puerto Rico The Role of the Financial Sector in the Economic Development of Puerto Rico by Rita M. Maldonado. About Underdeveloped Societies Economic Progress and the Developing World by Edward Marcus and Mildred Rendl Marcus. Updating Development Protagonists of Change: Subcultures in Development and Revolution, edited by Abdul A. Said. The Transcendent Behaviorist Society and Economic Growth: A Behavioral Perspective of Social Change by John H. Kunkel. Viewing History Afresh At the Edge of History by William Irwin Thompson. The Snow of Yesteryear Public Affairs by C. P. Snow. Government Personnel Public Service: The Human Side of Government by John W. Macy, Jr. Labor Relations in Government The Unions and the Cities by Harry H. Wellington and Ralph K. Winter, Jr. Revolting Students, Then and Now Student Activism: Town and Gown in Historical Perspective, edited by Alexander DeConde. 1972 Is Another Ball Game Passion and Politics: Student Activism in America, Part 1 by Seymour Martin Lipset and Part 2 by Gerald M. Schaflander. Tullock's Law The Logic of the Law by Gordon Tullock. Grace and Works in Latin America Human Rights and the Liberation of Man in the Americas, edited by Louis M. Colonnese. Man and Beast The Cougar Doesn't Live Here Any More by Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne. Getting to Know the Bomagai-Angoiang Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community by William C. Clarke. Geography in the Seventies The North American City by Maurice H. Yeates and Barry J. Garner. Learning from the Past The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Green-belt Town Program, 1935–1954 by Joseph L. Arnold. Slow Progress Urban Land Economics and Public Policy by Richard B. Andrews. Stop the Music Noise Pollution: The Unquiet Crisis by Clifford R. Bragdon. On Behalf of the Indian Big Brother's Indian Programs-With Reservations by Sar A. Levitan and Barbara Hetrick. Near-White Status The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White by James W. Loewen. Lost Ground The Job Crisis for Black Youth Financial Dilemma Fiscal Pressures on the Central City: The Impact of Commuters, Nonwhites, and Overlapping Governments by Werner Z. Hirsch Red Roundup Yearbook on Latin American Communist Affairs, 1971, edited by William E. Ratliff. Comprehensive Guide The Cambridge History of Islam: Vol. 1, The Central Islamic Lands The Value of a Degree Economic Dimensions in Education by Martin O'Donoghue. Demographic Dimensions Population Growth and the Brain Drain, edited by F. Bechhofer. Agricultural Sagacity The Economics of Agriculture by Margaret Capstick. A Brief Rapid Population Growth: Consequences and Policy Implications, Vol. 1, Summary and Recommendations A Challenging Question Is Law Dead?, edited by Eugene V. Rostow. One River's Environment Swan River Landscapes by George Seddon. An Objective Method Voting and Collective Choice: Some Aspects of the Theory of Group Decision-Making by Prasanta K. Pattanaik. A Practical Handbook Regional Economic Analysis for Practitioners by Avrom Bendavid. Chicano Manifesto by Armando B. Rendon. Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization by Harold Seidman. Economic Development and Population Control: A Fifty-Year Projection for Jamaica by B. Thomas Walsh. SDS by Alan Adelson.Now Is the Time: A New Populist Call to Action by Fred R. Harris. Japan: Its History and Culture by W. Scott Morton. The Emerging Japanese Superstate: Challenge and Response by Herman Kahn. Hanging Together: Equality in an Urban Nation by William L. Taylor. A Mind of One Piece: Brandeis and American Reform by Melvin I. Urofsky. Sentencing in a Rational Society by Nigel Walker. Social Experimentation and Manpower Policy: The Rhetoric and the Reality by Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart 111. Social Control and Social Change, edited by John Paul Scott and Sarah F. Scott. The State of the Nations: Constraints on Development in Independent Africa, edited by Michael F. Lofchie. The Presidency by Dale Vinyard. The American Left: Radical Political Thought in the Twentieth Century, edited by Loren Baritz. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek. Man and Atom: Building a New World through Nuclear Technology by Glenn T. Seaborg and William R. Corliss. Toward a Rational Power Policy: Energy, Politics, and Pollution by Neil Fabricant and Robert M. Hallman. Land of Urban Promise: Continuing the Great Tradition-A Search for Significant Urban Space in the Urbanized Northeast by Julian Eugene Kulski. The Politics of Disorder by Theodore J. Lowi. The Shape of Likelihood: Relevance and the University Regional Economics: Theory and Practice, edited by David L. McKee, Robert D. Dean, and William H. Leahy. The Foreign Affairs Fudge Factory by John Franklin Campbell. The Public Economy of Metropolitan Areas by Robert L. Bish. The Future of the Oceans by Wolfgang Friedmann.     

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Book Reviewed in this Article Signs of Life in Appalachia. Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening, edited by David S. Walls and John B. Stephenson. Signs of Death in Appalachia. My Land Is Dying by Harry M. Caudill. Growth Centers and Innovations. Growth Centers in Regional Economic Development, edited by Niles M. Hansen. Cities as Systems. New Tools for Urban Management: Studies in Systems and Organizational Analysis by Richard S. Rosenbloom and John R. Russell. A Rewarding Progress Report. Urban Space and Structures, edited by Leslie Martin and Lionel March. Transit Predicament. Beyond the Automobile: Reshaping the Transportation Environment by Tabor R. Stone. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The Future of American Transportation, edited by Ernest W. Williams, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. To Grow or Not to Grow? Economic Growth vs. the Environment, edited by Warren A. Johnson and John Hardesty. Diversity midst Regulation Technological Change in Regulated Industries, edited by William M. Capron. The War on the Poor Reforming the Poor: Welfare Policy, Federalism, and Morality by Joel F. Handler. Ominous Presence. From Reconstruction to Revolution: The Blacks' Struggle for Equality by Joseph A. Alvarez. Racial Policies. The White Use of Blacks in America by Dan Lacy. Country-by-Country Discussion Africa Independent: A Survey of Political Developments(Keesing's Research Report) by the Editorial Staff Malaysia Today Administration and Development in Malaysia: Institution Building and Reform in a Plural Society by Milton J. Esman     

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Books reviewed: Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis, by David R. Meyer. Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban‐Regional Change in Pacific Asia, by Yue‐man Yeung. Regional Cohesion and Competition in the Age of Globalization, edited by Hirotada Kohno, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, edited by William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury. The Atlanta Paradox, edited by David L. Sjoquist. The Economics of Sports, edited by William S. Kern. Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, by Asayehgn Desta.     

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Books reviewed in this article: H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), The Role of SMEs in National Economies in East Asia C. Allen, Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts Mushtaq H. Khan and K. S. Jomo (eds), Rents, Rent‐seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia T. Dwyer (ed.), Resource Tax Policy in Countries of the Asia Pacific Region J. X. Kasperson and E. K. Roger, Global Environmental Risk J. D. Kelly and M. Kaplan, Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization R. E. Elson, Suharto: A Political Biography     

Total factor productivity and the factors of green industry in Shanxi Province,China

Based on industrial panel data from 11 prefecture-level cities in Shanxi Province from 2008 to 2016, two kinds of total factor productivity (TFP) are measured: With and without the consideration of environmental factors. The specific decomposition of TFP under these two conditions is then discussed. Finally, the factors of TFP are studied in a green industry context. The results indicate the following: (a) The TFP's annual growth rate considering environmental conditions is higher than that without such consideration; (b) if environmental factors are neglected, TFP improvements primarily depend on technological progress; (c) when considering environmental factors, both technological progress and improved technological efficiency promote the growth of green TFP (GTFP), but this still primarily depends on substantial technological progress, with an annual average growth rate that reaches 10.2%; and (d) among factors, the economic development level, degree of openness, and urbanization positively correlate with the GTFP, while the industrial structure and degree of informatization significantly and negatively correlate with GTFP.     

第三产业绿色技术创新效率时空差异及动态演变

本研究旨在提出促进长江经济带第三产业绿色技术创新水平提升的建议,为推进经济带协同一体的高质量发展提供理论依据。基于Min-DS模型,测度2001—2018年第三产业绿色技术创新效率,并结合Dagum基尼系数和Kernel密度估计,揭示区域及其子地区绿色技术创新效率变化的时空差异特征、贡献率及动态演变规律。以长江经济带为例研究得知：在观察期内经济带第三产业绿色技术创新效率总体呈上升趋势,下游地区效率具有显著优势;但各省市效率变化趋势存在较大差异,效率强度区域的空间分布随时间改变;上中下游地区内及之间绿色技术创新效率的时空差异是经济带时空差异的主要来源。本研究系统分析了长江经济第三产业绿色技术创新效率的分布及演变特征,得到了其提升绿色技术创新水平的有效路径。     

Stay-green expression in early generation sorghum [<Emphasis Type="Italic">Sorghum bicolor</Emphasis> (L.) Moench] QTL introgression lines

Reduced leaf senescence (stay-green) has been demonstrated to improve tolerance of post-flowering moisture stress in grain sorghum. A number of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with stay-green have been identified in sorghum, to facilitate transfer of this trait into adapted genetic backgrounds. This study reports initial evaluations, in both well watered and post-flowering stress environments, following partial introgression (BC₂F₃/BC₁F₄ generations) of four stable stay-green QTLs (StgB, Stg1, Stg3 and Stg4) from donor parent B35 to senescent variety R 16. The majority of the introgression lines had higher leaf chlorophyll levels at flowering (a distinctive trait of the donor parent) and a greater percentage green leaf area during the latter part of grain filling, than did R 16, indicating that the stay-green QTLs were expressed phenotypically in the R 16 background. None of the QTL introgression lines achieved the same level of stay-green as B35, however. Maintenance of a greater relative green leaf area during the latter half of grain filling was related to a greater relative grain yield in two of three post-flowering moisture deficit environments in which the materials were evaluated (r ² = 0.34 in 2004–2005 and r ² = 0.76 in 2005–2006), as was a direct measure of leaf chlorophyll in one of the post-flowering stress environments in which this was measured (r ² = 0.42, P < 0.05). Thus the study provided useful evidence that the marker-assisted backcross transfer of stay-green QTLs from B35 into an adapted, but senescent background has the potential to enhance tolerance of post-flowering drought stress in sorghum.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Realistic Character Sketch The Unrevolutwnary Society: The Power of Latin American Consewatism in a Changing World by John Mander. Concerning Our Neighbors The Latin Americans by Victor Alba. Economic Venturers The Colombian Entrepreneur in Bogota by Aaron Lipman. Economic Experiences Economic Interdependence in Southeast Asia, edited by Theodore Morgan and Nyle Spoelstra. Soviet Interference The Struggle for the Middle East: The Soviet Union in the Mediterranean, 1958–1968 by Walter Laqueur. The Arabs and Israelis The Birth of Israel: The Tousled Diplomatic Bed by Herbert Feis Cuba's Students University Students and Reuolution in Cuba, 1920–1968 by Jaime Suchlicki Political Attitudes The Conservative Tradition in American Thought, edited by Jay A. Sigler. A New Approach The Roots of the Modem American Empire: A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousncss in a Marketplace Society by William Appleman Williams. Why Programs Haven't Worked Economic Development: The Cultural Context by Thomas R. de Gregori and Oriol Pi-Sunyer. Praise for Lasswell Politics, Personality, and Social Science in the Twentieth Century: Essays in Honor of Harold D. Lasswell, edited by Arnold A. Rogow. Human Creativity The Right to Create by Judith Groch. From the Beginning The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris. Watts Revisited Watts: The Aftermath, edited by Paul Bullock. Plain Talk Money by Lawrence S. Ritter and William L. Silber. Distribution of Federal Grants Sharing Federal Funds for State and Local Needs: Grants-in-Aid and PPB Systems by Selma J. Mushkin and John F. Cotton Managing Gotham Governing the City: Challenges and Options for New York, edited by Robert H. Connery and Demetrios Caralay     

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Book reviewed in this article: Problems Analyzed, Solutions Offered The Challenge of World Poverty: A World Anti-Poverty Program in Outline by Gunnar Myrdal. East-West Cooperation Coexistence and Commerce: Guidelines for Transactions between East and West by Samuel Pisar. Working Together The Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction: Twenty Years of Cooperation for Agricultural Development by T. H. Shen. European Unity Jean Monnet and the United States of Europe by Merry and Serge Bromberger (translated by E. P. Halperin). Worldwide Urbanization Cities on the Move by Arnold Toynbee. A Call to Action Eleventh Hour: A Hard Look at Conservation and the Future by Alexander B. Adams. Revenue Sources Indirect Taxation in Developing Economies: The Role and Structure of Customs Duties, Excises, and Sales Taxes by John F. Due. The Process of Development Development Through Revolution by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen. A Building Process The Economic Development of Harlem by Thomas Vietorisz and Bennett Harrison. A New Day for Zoning The New Zoning: Legal, Administrative, and Economic Concepts and Techniques, edited by Norman Marcus and Marilyn W. Groves. A New Plan Rural Poverty and the Urban Crisis: A Strategy for Regional Development by Niles M. Hansen. An Assault of the Freeways Superhighway-Superhoax by Helen Leavitt. Economic Aspects of Housing Urban Analysis: Readings in Housing and Urban Development by Alfred N. Page and Warren R. Seyfried. Government Activity Private Wants, Public Means: An Economic Analysis of the Desirable Scope of Government by Gordon Tullock. Innocent Victims Wildlife Crisis by HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and James Fisher. Stilling the Clamor In Quest of Quiet: Meeting the Menace of Noise Pollution by Henry Still. Concern for the World The Population Problem by Arthur McCormack. Role of Architecture Creating the Human Environment: A Report of the American Institute of Architects by Gerald M. McCue, William R. Ewald, Jr., and The Mid-west Research Institute.     

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Book reviews in this article: Straight Talk from Our Former Editor U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (prepared by Lawrence R. Klein and Susan Ghozeil), A Popularized Version of 21 Doctoral Dissertations, R & D monograph. The Well-Tempered Caveat Benjamin Chinitz, ed., The Declining Northeast: Demographic and Economic Analyses.. George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, eds., Revitalizing the Northeast: Prelude to an Agenda.. The Economic Solution William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates, Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. The No-Free-Lunch Bunch Harold Sprout and Margaret Sprout, The Context of Environmental Politics: Unfinished Business for America's Third Century. Of Flora, Fish, and Titmice Ian C. Laurie, ed., Nature in Cities: The Natural Environment in the Design and Development of Urban Green Space. An Array of Options David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning. Reusing Resources David W. Pearce and Ingo Walter, eds., Resource Conservation: Social and Economic Dimensions of Recycling. Once More with Fueling Wallace E. Tyner, Energy Resources and Economic Development in India. Left-of-Center Viewpoint Jeannine Swift, Economic Development in Latin America. Edward J. Blakely, ed., Community Development Research: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies. Elchanan Cohn, The Economics of Education P. W. Daniels, ed., Spatial Patterns of Office Growth and Location. Douglas Evans, Western Energy Policy: The Case for Competition. R. A. French and F. E. Ian Hamilton, eds., The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy. D. A. Kirby, Slum Housing and Residential Renewal: The Case in Urban Britain. Thomas D. Lynch, Public Budgeting in America. Ragaei El Mallakh, Qatar: Development of an Oil Economy. Roberta Balstad Miller, City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. Rakesh Mohan, Urban Economic and Planning Models: Assessing the Potential for Cities in Developing Countries. Joseph P. Newhouse, The Economics of Medical Care: A Policy Perspective. John L. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs and Wage Subsidies. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered.