While China is currently producing knowledge at an impressive rate, the vast majority of the knowledge production takes place in research institutes and academic institutions, rather than in firms.

中国目前以惊人的速度在生产知识，不过大多数的知识生产出自研究机构和学术机构，而不是出自企业。

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Indeed, several studies based on private-sector firms find that women' s mobility prospects improve, rather than decline, as they climb upward in corporate hierarchies.

事实上，一些基于私营企业的研究发现，随着女性在企业等级制度中的上升，女性的流动前景有所改善，而不是下降。

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But in Japan, firms like Denshoare becoming the exception rather than the rule.

但在日本，电硝这样的公司正变成不合规则的例外。

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But in contrast with the trend in recent months, it was manufacturing firms rather than those in the service sector who led the increase in employment.

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The information problem comes from the fact that we forsake the social processes that tell us whether we are choosing wisely or not when we make these tasks the responsibility of the government rather than the responsibility of the firms in question.

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On the other hand, rules put in place that would slow the death of fraudulent or insolvent firms will mean more, rather than less, in the way of investors will be ensnared by false market signals.

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