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Constitutional Reform, Rent Extraction, and Economic Development in China
Congleton, Roger D. - 2011
This paper explores the constitutional political economy and history of economic liberalization in China, with the aim of understanding how and why the policies that produced that growth came to be adopted. The paper argues that constitutional reforms played important roles in China's economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133443
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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135194
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The Rising of De Facto Power : China Evidence
Jiang, Ellen Jin - 2018
Using the anti-corruption campaign launched in China in 2012, we examine how the rise of the economic presence of the private sector impacts economic activities and outcome. Although the economic activities may be temporarily inversely impacted by the campaign because some government officials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923332
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Fiscal Decentralization and Peasants' Financial Burden in China
Jin, Jing; Shen, Chunli; Zou, Heng-fu - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 13 (2012) 1, pp. 53-90
This paper sheds light on the heavy financial burden on peasants in China's fiscal decentralization system. Using a political economy framework, this paper explores the tax-farming nature of China's fiscally decentralized system and examines why the system incurs a particularly heavy financial...
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China in Context : Energy, Water, and Climate Cooperation
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014
Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045386
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India : competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … been very active, is contrasted with that of India, where local governments remain cumscribed in their authority, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854977
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Fiscal Decentralization in China and India : Competitive, Cooperative or Market Preserving Federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2008
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … been very active, is contrasted with that of India, where local governments remain circumscribed in their authority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213972
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Federalism and economic development in India: An assessment
Singh, Nirvikar; Srinivasan, T.N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper examines India’s federal system in the context of prospects for India’s future economic growth and … development. After a brief review of India’s recent policy reforms and economic development outcomes, and of the country’s federal … institutions, the analysis focuses on the major issues with respect to India’s federal system in terms of their developmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787082
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India: Competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … been very active, is contrasted with that of India, where local governments remain circumscribed in their authority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322728
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Fiscal decentralization in China and India: Competitive, cooperative or market preserving federalism?
Singh, Nirvikar - 2007
This paper provides a comparative assessment of fiscal decentralization in China and India, including the standard … been very active, is contrasted with that of India, where local governments remain cumscribed in their authority, despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285340