than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity …Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more … advantage using recent firm-level survey data. The analysis finds that China has better infrastructure, more skilled workers …

widely in developing countries. China's experience with such contracts was one of the largest experiments with contracting in …. On average, PCs did not improve performance and may have made it worse. But China's PCs were not uniformly bad; in fact …, PCs improved productivity in slightly more than half of the participants. PC effects were on average negative because of …

. Using a rich set of panel data about changes in China`s state-owned enterprises, Xu examines the static and dynamic effects … of decentralizing ownership and control rights.He finds that productivity and growth rates improved significantly when … performance contracts - conventionally viewed as the most important reforms for China's state enterprises - did not improve …