Wednesday, May 14, 2008
[IWS] ADB: CHINA: RAILWAYS--AN AGENDA FOR ACTION [April 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Railways of the People�s Republic of China: An Agenda for Action
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Papers/Railways-Agenda-Action/default.asp
or
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Papers/Railways-Agenda-Action/Railways-Agenda-Action.pdf
[full-text, 44 pages]
ISBN: 978-971-561-678-2
Publication Date: April 2008
New
Reforms in the PRC�s Ministry of Railways are as crucial as adding modern infrastructure and equipment and have played a primary role in sustaining the railway sector, making it efficient and profitable. However, with increasing market access and growing competition from other modes, the sector faces many challenges.
This paper analyzes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing railways in the PRC. Based on these analyses, the paper makes 10 key recommendations as an agenda for action to overcome these challenges and suggests a way forward to implement them.
Contents
Acknowledgment, Foreword, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. Strengths
3. Weaknesses
4. Opportunities and Threats
5. Agenda for Action: 10 Key Recommendations
6. The Way Forward
7. Conclusions
8. Bibliography
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Railways of the People�s Republic of China: An Agenda for Action
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Papers/Railways-Agenda-Action/default.asp
or
http://www.adb.org/Documents/Papers/Railways-Agenda-Action/Railways-Agenda-Action.pdf
[full-text, 44 pages]
ISBN: 978-971-561-678-2
Publication Date: April 2008
New
Reforms in the PRC�s Ministry of Railways are as crucial as adding modern infrastructure and equipment and have played a primary role in sustaining the railway sector, making it efficient and profitable. However, with increasing market access and growing competition from other modes, the sector faces many challenges.
This paper analyzes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing railways in the PRC. Based on these analyses, the paper makes 10 key recommendations as an agenda for action to overcome these challenges and suggests a way forward to implement them.
Contents
Acknowledgment, Foreword, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. Strengths
3. Weaknesses
4. Opportunities and Threats
5. Agenda for Action: 10 Key Recommendations
6. The Way Forward
7. Conclusions
8. Bibliography
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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