Using firm-level data from an Enterprise Survey of World Bank, this paper is designed to test how policy variables can affect inward foreign direct investment (“FDI”) in China. After excluding the problems of sample selection and endogeneity, the result shows that investment promotion agencies (IPAs) and investment incentive zones (IIZs) have significant positive effect on absorbing FDI in Chin...

In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to incorporate the city’s traditional ‘outsides’ into urban research. Urban political ecology, American urban sociology and postcolonial urban studies have made, respectively, ‘nature’, the ‘rural’ and the ‘not-yet’ city the objects of self-consciously urban analyses. I argue that these interventions are an...

Measurements in a highly polluted Asian mega city: observations of aerosol number size distribution, modal parameters and nucleation events P. Mönkkönen, I. K. Koponen, K. E. J. Lehtinen, K. Hämeri , R. Uma, and M. Kulmala University of Helsinki, Department of Physical Sciences, Finland Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New De...

As the world urbanizes, global health challenges are increasingly concentrated in cities. Currently, over 80% of the population in Latin America already lives in cities. The African urban population is projected to double in the next decade and China has urbanized in thirty years at a rate it took Europe and North America a century [1]. Rapidly growing new cities and increasingly segregated old...

Internet of Things (IoT) approach is empowering smart city creativities all over the world. There is no specific tool or criteria for the evaluation of the services offered by the smart city. In this paper, a new Multilayer Fuzzy Inference System (MFIS) is proposed for the assessment of the Planet Factors of smart city (PFSC). The PFSC system is categorized into two levels. The proposed MFIS ba...