A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
AbstractThis paper traces the root causes of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government's inability to regulate the city's major economic issues. This regulatory deficiency can be partly attributed to the city's 500years of Portuguese colonial rule, although some of the problems have been caused by the casino boom, which began with the liberalization of Macao's gaming industry, and the government's failure to cope with ensuing dramatic changes. From a historical and institutional perspective, the author illustrates and analyzes the dynamic relationship between economic regulation and urban politics on a rapidly growing urban island facing various governance challenges.
HighlightsFrom Europe's last Asian colony to China's Special Administrative RegionSocial discontent in the face of casino boomInstitutional flaws inherited from Portuguese colonial regimeLimited regulatory capacity and inability to reform due to urban island culture
AbstractThis paper traces the root causes of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government's inability to regulate the city's major economic issues. This regulatory deficiency can be partly attributed to the city's 500years of Portuguese colonial rule, although some of the problems have been caused by the casino boom, which began with the liberalization of Macao's gaming industry, and the government's failure to cope with ensuing dramatic changes. From a historical and institutional perspective, the author illustrates and analyzes the dynamic relationship between economic regulation and urban politics on a rapidly growing urban island facing various governance challenges.
HighlightsFrom Europe's last Asian colony to China's Special Administrative RegionSocial discontent in the face of casino boomInstitutional flaws inherited from Portuguese colonial regimeLimited regulatory capacity and inability to reform due to urban island culture
Explaining urban economic governance: The City of Macao
| Online Contents | 2016
Explaining urban economic governance: The City of Macao
| Online Contents | 2017
| Elsevier | 2009
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