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inequality -- 11. Labor market institutions and social protections -- 12. Reaping China's reform dividends. …China has grown rapidly since the reform initiation of the 1970s. China's Economic Growth Prospects narrates the … contribution of demographic transition to recent economic growth in China, and provides suggestions for ways in which it can …
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India is about to catch up with China and become another Asian miracle economy. Economic Reform in China and India examines …
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This book is a comprehensive, balanced and realistic assessment of China's financial reform program and future … financial liberalization, the authors examine the impact of financial reform on economic development in China during the reform … therefore, allow more informed future policy choices for both China and other developing and transitional countries …
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RTAs in relation to exchange rates, the role and goals of the WTO and agriculture …
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Most countries, developed and developing, are fiscally decentralized with regional and local governments of varying importance. In many of these countries, some of these sub-national governments differ substantially from others in terms of wealth, ethnic, religious, or linguistic composition....
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This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...
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Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ranging consequences. This edited volume presents original...
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This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of "fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors...
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Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the...
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State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and...
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