Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions

by Kanbur; Ravi

• ISBN13: 9780415775878
• ISBN10: 0415775876
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume brings together a collection of the best available analyses of China's problems in governing rapid growth, focusing on equity and institutions, from well respected Chinese and non-Chinese scholars.

Table of Contents

Notes on editors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Permissions	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xv
China's growth strategies	p. 1
Policy challenges and options	p. 19
China is already capable of solving the "three-dimensional rural problem"	p. 21
Twenty years' review and deliberation: the choice of priorities in reform	p. 28
The course of China's rural reform	p. 35
Poverty and inequality	p. 47
China's (uneven) progress against poverty	p. 49
Fifty years of regional inequality in China: a journey through central planning, reform, and openness	p. 96
Economic liberalization with rising segmentation in China's urban labor market	p. 115
The evolution of income inequality in rural China	p. 173
Rural poverty in China: problem and solution	p. 229
Governance and institutions	p. 247
Economic-social interaction in China	p. 249
Redefining relations between the rule of law and the market-clues provided by four basic issues in China today	p. 276
Political turnover and economic performance: the incentive role of personnel control in China	p. 303
The lessons of China's transition to a market economy	p. 325
Regional decentralization and fiscal incentives: federalism, Chinese style	p. 353
Index	p. 381
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