Innovation or Rent-seeking: The Entrepreneurial Behavior during China's Economic Transformation
Although achieving impressive economic growth during the economic reform period, China has been plagued by rampant corruption and a widening income gap. How can the coexistence these two phenomena be explained? In this paper, we argue that before 1994, the coexistence was induced by a series of expediential institutional arrangements to stimulate entrepreneurial activities and after 1994, it was entrenched because of the slow progress in the overall reform toward becoming a market economy and because of inappropriate government actions and the lack of government action in institutional building. To solve these problems, economic and political reforms need to be accelerated to improve market institutions and to establish the rule of law. Copyright (c) 2008 The Authors Journal compilation (c) 2008 Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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2008
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Authors: | Wu, Jinglian ; Huang, Shaoqing |
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China & World Economy. - Institute of World Economics and Politics. - Vol. 16.2008, 4, p. 64-81
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Institute of World Economics and Politics |
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