Contemporary Developments and Issues in China's Economic Transition

by Harvie, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780312230265
• ISBN10: 0312230265
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-06-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

As a prospective economic giant in the next century, developments in the Chinese economy are significant to the global economy. This book consists of contributions concerned with analyzing contemporary developments and issues facing the country after two decades of economic reform, and key policies which will exert a profound influence upon the country's prospective growth and development momentum into the next millennium.

Author Biography

Charles Harvie is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Map 1: The Regions and Provinces of China	xxiv
Part 1 Recent developments
Economic Reforms and Recent Macroeconomic Performance	3	(31)
Charles Harvie
Growth, Inflation and the Asian Financial Crisis	34	(11)
Tran Van Hoa
Corporate Governance, Ownership Change and State-Owned Enterprise Reform	45	(26)
Charles Harvie
Tony Naughton
Business Alliances, Organizational Change and Township and Village Enterprises	71	(30)
Charles Harvie
Financial Sector Reform	101	(36)
Martin Hovey
Tony Naughton
Labour Market Developments	137	(25)
Greg O'Leary
The Interdependence of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China During the 1990s	162	(29)
Chung-Sok Suh
Jung-Soo Seo
Part 2 Key issues
Balanced Development: the Challenge for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy	191	(21)
Tim Turpin
Xielin Liu
China's Labour Migration Since 1978	212	(26)
Robyn Iredale
Regional Income Inequality in China	238	(24)
Khorshed Chowdhury
Charles Harvie
Amnon Levy
Land Reform and the Competitiveness of China's Cities	262	(21)
Darren McKay
Index	283