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List of contributors

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Peter Lloyd

Xiao-guang Zhang

PART ONE THE MACROECONOMY

The adjustment of macroeconomic policies in China

Fureng Dong

The political economy of China's declining growth

Thomas G. Rawski

Savings functions for a multi-sector CGE model of the Chinese economy

Mei Wen

Peter Lloyd

PART TWO STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES

Productive performance of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the early 1990s: a stochastic production frontier and Malmquist productivity index analysis

Xiang Kong

Robert E. Marks

Guang-Hua Wan

The long-run comparative labour productivity performance of Chinese and US manufacturing, 1952-97

Harry X. Wu

State-owned enterprise reform, ownership structure and managerial incentives

Zhilan Chen

Shaogong Lin

Non-performing debts in SOEs and the effect of policies aimed at their solution

Gangming Yuan

PART THREE INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Export similarity and the pattern of East Asian development

Xinpeng Xu

Ligang Song

China's exchange rate mechanism and the real effective exchange rate

Lei Lei Song

The development of electronic commerce in China

Ping Lan

PART FOUR AGRICULTURE

Off-farm migration of labour and long-term economic growth in China

Xiao-guang Zhang

Supply response of the marketed surplus of grains in China

Zhang-Yue Zhou

Wei-Ming Tian

Guang-Hua Wan

Are food embargoes a real threat to China?

Yongzheng Yang

PART FIVE INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Income disparity and convergence in China's regional economies

Yanrui Wu

Stature, nutritional status and economic reform in China

Stephen L. Morgan

Local health and the global environment: an integrated assessment of air pollution control in China

Chao Yang Peng

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