Contemporary Developments and Issues in China's Economic Transition

✍ Scribed by Charles Harvie

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As a prospective economic giant in the next century, developments in the Chinese economy are of significance 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 24
Map 1: The Regions and Provinces of China......Page 25
Part 1 Recent developments......Page 26
1. Economic Reforms and Recent Macroeconomic Performance......Page 28
2. Growth, Inflation and the Asian Financial Crisis......Page 59
3. Corporate Governance, Ownership Change and State-Owned Enterprise Reform......Page 70
4. Business Alliances, Organizational Change and Township and Village Enterprises......Page 96
5. Financial Sector Reform......Page 126
6. Labour Market Developments......Page 162
7. The Interdependence of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China During the 1990s......Page 187
Part 2 Key issues......Page 214
8. Balanced Development: the Challenge for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy......Page 216
9. China's Labour Migration Since 1978......Page 237
10. Regional Income Inequality in China......Page 263
11. Land Reform and the Competitiveness of China's Cities......Page 287
Index......Page 308