Law and Policy Trends that Affect NGOs and Social Enterprises in China
What factors are influencing the survival of NGOs in China?
What factors are influencing the survival of NGOs in China?
What needs to happen if nations are to be impacted leading to transformation?
From the editor's desk.
A discussion of the need for a social enterprise to be focused on sustainability in order to be effective.
There are numerous challenges that could derail China's march to super-power status including a collapse of the banking system, regional disintegration, environmental disaster, and military miscalculations. However, perhaps the most likely factor to prevent China's rise will be the one the government can least do anything about: demography. China, as always, has too many people; now, however, it is also lacking in females, youth, and sooner rather than later, a workforce to support its retired population.
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Looking Ahead in China" (ChinaSource, 2010 Fall).
A look at benefits of "business as mission" for China and the trends in the China that will affect its viability and potential impact.
Parents have the primary responsibility to disciple their childrennot the church or the school. Three approaches are discussed and evaluated with practical suggestions for churches to support parents.
Medical care and other social services are taking highly positive trends throughout China.
What are the possibilities regarding the future leadership of China?
Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler. Harper (New York: 2010), 438pp. ISBN 978-0-06-180409-0, $27.99.
Reviewed by Wayne Martindale
What Does China Think? by Mark Leonard