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Based on research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of state enterprise reform in China. It considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978.

Product Description: Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China.  Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and the Group Company Experiments, which began in the 1990s...read more

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Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This book is the result of a large-scale investigation through detailed questionnaires of China's reform process over the years 1979-87. It analyzes China's gradualist transition to a market economy, and concludes that, although the reform program has been a qualified success, further progress requires the introduction of private ownership...read more

Nominated for the 2006 IPEG Book Prize Drawing on the research of ten scholars from around the world, this volume evaluates China’s privatization experience by investigating the efficiency and fairness of the sale process and the credibility of the government’s ambition to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. One of the first book-length works to evaluate China’s privatization experience. Draws on the research of ten scholars from around the world including Liu Xiaoxuan (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Sun Laixiang (SOAS, London University) and Chih-jou Jay Chen (Academic Sinica). Investigates the factors determining the decision by government officials to sell or retain their firms. Evaluates how credible the government’s ambition is to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. Compares the efficiency and fairness of the sales against the lessons learned from the former Soviet bloc. Explains how the state is withdrawing from key sectors such as automobiles, energy and telecoms.

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Product Description: Private enterprises have contributed significantly to China's recent economic growth and will play a key role in achieving China's goal of building a comprehensively well-society. But how can private enterprises help China mitigate its macroeconomic problems such as unemployment, income inequality, financial disintermediation, and an unhealthy economic cycle? And what are the main obstacles to private enterprise development? Private Enterprises and China’s Economic Development answers these questions by identifying the range of cultural, political and financial challenges confronting China's private enterprises, and assessing their performance and potential...read more

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Product Description: This volume brings together contributions from a diverse group of authors each of whom have worked extensively on privatization and related reforms, such as restructuring and bankruptcy, in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), sometimes referred to as the Former Soviet Union, and South East Europe (SEE)...read more