, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …

positive development that will lock China on to the path of deepening economic reform. We assess several recent claims of China …

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization … economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be … driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of …

an agenda for fiscal federal reform, which then proceeds through political bargaining. This change has taken place in the … context of, and been influenced by, broader economic reform in India. …

an agenda for fiscal federal reform, which then proceeds through political bargaining. This change has taken place in the … context of, and been influenced by, broader economic reform in India. …