Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist … school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental …, and incremental nature of China's reforms. Specifically, the resulting non-capitalist institutions are said to be …

challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector …Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …