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Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I: New Model for Economic Growth -- 1. Reform and China's Long-Term Growth and Development -- 2. China's Shift from the Demographic Dividend to the Reform Dividend -- 3. Structural Imbalance, Inequality and Economic Growth...

Preliminary -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 China's New Strategy for Long-term Growth and Development: Imperatives and Implications- Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang and Ligang Song -- 2 New Institutions for a New Development Model - Dwight H. Perkins -- 3 The New...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables, and maps -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Background on the Palestinian economy Dependency -- The Oslo Process -- Corruption in the Palestinian Authority -- Part I Selected topics...