This book explores what happened in the transition economies of China, Vietnam and Myanmar from both macro and micro perspectives, and questions whether the governments of these countries are capable of implementing effective reform and transformation

An Indispensable ReformThe Current Social Security System in China; Social security for urban workers in formal sectors; Social security for government employees in administrative and operative units; Social security for rural farmers and urban non-working residents; Challenges to China's Current...

When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This book provides a novel conceptual framework built from a political economy of business-government relations and applies it to nine countries across Africa and...