Chinese Steel Industry's Transformation

ISBN-13: 9781848446588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 192 str.

Ligang Song

Opis

This unique and informative book provides a central reference work on the Chinese steel industry and discusses China's increasing demand on metals from both macroeconomic and regional perspectives. It includes macroeconomic studies of developments in Chinese resource demand with particular reference to the ferrous metals and microeconomic studies that utilize comprehensive firm-level data to evince new knowledge of both firm and industry performance with respect to their productivity, the technical efficiency, and industrial linkages. The book also discusses trade in steel products and the impact of the restructuring of the industry on the environment. This detailed and analytical study will appeal to academics, students and researchers in Chinese studies, government agencies and private sectors - such as the mining industry, as well as financial agencies analysing the Chinese demand on global resources.