Prevalence Rates of Associations across Territories

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Research trends in nonprofit graduate studies in China: An inside perspective

“…In particular, the proportion focused on nonprofit management and organizations out of total theses and dissertations completed was 0.03% in 2000 but by 2013 that proportion increased to 0.16%, a fivefold increase; by 2018 it was 0.09%, still a threefold increase. Overall, this suggests that the growth in nonprofit graduate studies was faster than the increase in graduate studies overall within the same period in China, and partly mirrors the global growth reported by Smith, Never, Mohan, Prouteau, and Torpe (2016) in nonprofit studies worldwide.…”

“…The regional GDP may be the most important factor, as it is known that geographic prevalence of NPOs among nations of the world or among states/provinces in a nation is substantially affected by territorial GDP (Li, 2011; Smith et al, 2016). Table 5 generally illustrates this relationship.…”