The Government of China has placed strong emphasis on addressing problems related to agriculture, farmers, and rural … delivery at the grassroots level. And, given China's size and diversity, reform efforts must focus on improving incentive …

-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure …

expenditures, as in China and India, the impact was magnified. Increases in recurrent expenditure, which were made in Brazil and … India, acted as short-term stimulants; additional public investment, as in China, appears to have had a more lasting impact … restricted the contribution of Brazilian states to fiscal stimulus. Legal prohibition of subnational borrowing induced China …

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan … get a telephone line, sales lost to power outages). For many of these costs, the obstacles are lower in China than in the … for investment and production. This paper helps explain why China has been so successful over the past decade, both in …