Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management or Back Alley Banking

Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications

Author: Yasar A Ozcan PhD

As health care organization leaders use data more consistently in decision making, it is important they understand the quantitative methods that help convert data to information. Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management provides important insights into the various quantitative methods, detailing many different problems and their solutions. It contains numerous helpful exhibits and graphics that explain and demonstrate the methods presented. It also provides a readable narrative for the manager who wants a high-level refresher on quantitative methods.”

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Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China

Author: Kellee S Tsai

Chinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijing instituted economic reforms in the late 1970s. Most of these private ventures, however, have been denied access to official sources of credit. State banks continue to serve stateowned enterprises, yet most private financing remains illegal. How have Chinese entrepreneurs managed to fund their operations? In defiance of the national banking laws, small business owners have created a dizzying variety of informal financing mechanisms, including rotating credit associations and private banks disguised as other types of organizations.BackAlley Banking includes lively biographical sketches of individual entrepreneurs; telling quotations from official documents, policy statements, and newspaper accounts; and interviews with a wide variety of women and men who give vivid narratives of their daily struggles, accomplishments, and hopes for future prosperity. Kellee S. Tsai's book draws upon her unparalleled fieldwork in China's world of shadow finance to challenge conventional ideas about the political economy of development. Business owners in China, she shows, have mobilized local social and political resources in innovative ways despite the absence of statedirected credit or a welldefined system of private property rights.Entrepreneurs and local officials have been able to draw on the uncertainty of formal political and economic institutions to enhance local prosperity.

Author Bio:Kellee S. Tsai is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
	Note on Conversion of Key Measures and Romanization
1	The Power of Informal Institutions	1
2	The Political Economy of Informal Finance in China	24
3	Gendered Worlds of Finance in Fujian	60
4	Financial Innovation and Regulation in Wenzhou	120
5	Creative Capitalists in Henan	166
6	Curb Markets in Comparative Context	215
7	The Local Logics of Economic Possibility	246
App. A	Research Methodology	267
App. B	List of Non-Survey Field Interviews, 1994-2001	279
App. C	List of Surveys, 1996-97	286
App. D	Coding for Business Types	290
App. E	Comparative Summary of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations	291
	Sources Cited in Table 6.1 and Appendix E	296
	Glossary of Chinese Terms	300
	Index	307