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In recent years, as China’s reform of state–owned enterprises (SOEs) has gathered momentum, the number of workers made …
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China is considered to be a particularly successful example of a gradual approach to transition from a command economy …
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resources. This incompleteness of trade reforms currently prevents China from joining the WTO, which might eventually hamper its …Trade-policy reform is an essential feature of China’s economic transition to a market economy. On the one hand, the … liberalisation and decentralisation of export activities has boosted exports. On the other hand, the reform of China’s import regime …
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During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance … paper argues that a further liberalisation of services would be imperative for China to develop a more viable and dynamic …
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The paper analyses economic and political causes as well as outcomes of the sudden reversal of Indian economic policies in 1991–93, after four decades of autarky and interventionism. It argues that a changing political landscape and the emergence of new interest groups, coupled with a severe...
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During the last decade, the seed sector has been included in economic reform programmes in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa but it is not clear whether these initiatives have helped or hindered the process of improving small farmers' access to improved seed. This study explores this...
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We assess the prospects for growth of African economies up to the year 2010 by modelling structural and policy determinants of growth, under different scenarios for changes in the exogenous factors and economic policies which shape the projections. To this end we estimate a growth model for 39...
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State-owned enterprise (SOE) restructuring has proceeded more rapidly in Viet Nam than, for example, in China and India …
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Egypt, the oldest and most populous country in the Arab world, and one of its most influential in the Southern Mediterranean region, is now moving into the global economy. During the 1990s the country has pursued successful macroeconomic stabilisation policies and has also begun the structural...
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Latin America has long had the most unequally distributed income in the world because of land ownership patterns, development and education policies and demography, which have swelled the supply of unskilled labour and demand for skilled workers, leading to widening inequality. Import...
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