Chinese Railways Reform and Efficiency Improvement Opportunities

Although being huge by any measure, Chinese Railways are a bottleneck for economic growth in China. The state-owned enterprise returns a small profit but is severely capacity constrained and burdened with inefficiency. A comprehensive reform and efficiency improvement program needs to be developed i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Luger, Katrin (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD 2008.
Colección:Contributions to Economics.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations
  • Introduction: China’s Need for Efficient Logistics
  • The State of China’s Logistics Sector and the Role of Chinese Railways
  • Methodology for Analysis of Chinese Railways
  • The Macro Perspective on Chinese Railways’ Efficiency: Railway Reform and Deregulation
  • Chinese Railways’ Status Quo
  • Approaches to Regulation of Railways
  • Suggestions for Regulation of Chinese Railways
  • The Micro Perspective on Chinese Railways’ Efficiency: Improvement of Operational Effectiveness
  • Chinese Railways’ Current Sources of Inefficiency
  • Approaches to Railway Efficiency Improvement
  • Suggestions for Improvement of Chinese Railways’ Operational Efficiency
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusions.