Introduction: dual transformation of the Chinese economy -- Significance of defining land ownership -- Coordinated development of state and private enterprises -- Changes in the mode of economic development -- Macroeconomic regulation and control -- Reform of the income distribution system --...

Bureaucrats, businesses, and economic policies in a globalized China -- Chasing foreign capital -- From FDI attraction to domestic competitiveness -- Local policy making, globalized coalitions, and resource allocation -- The micro foundation of state intervention and policy effectiveness --...

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...