Narratives of Chinese economic reforms : how does China cross the river? / edited by Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Arjan de Haan.

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Rapid growth in the Chinese economy over the past three decades poses puzzles and challenges to neo-classical economic theory, as policies implemented during the reform process were often unorthodox. Although the Chinese experience has been widely studied, myths and questions about these reforms remain. To fill in the knowledge gap, and to inform a process of learning from China's development successes, this book features a series of case studies on the policy process of different initiatives, including rural industrialization, dual-track price reform, migration policy, village elections and f.

Ch. 1. Introduction : policy reforms as a process of learning / Xiaobo Zhang, Arjan de Haan and Shenggen Fan -- ch. 2. The course of China's rural reform / Du Runsheng -- ch. 3. Collective learning capacity and choice of reform path -- theoretical reflections on the dual-track system of price reform process / Luo Xiaopeng -- ch. 4. The formation and evolution of China's migrant labor policy / Cai Fang -- ch. 5. Narratives of Wenzhou's industrial privatization / Zhu Kangdui -- ch. 6. The process of establishing and extending direct elections in rural China / Wang Zhenyao -- ch. 7. The historical opportunity of the fiscal reform / Liu Zhongli -- ch. 8. Fiscal reform : the Zhejiang experience / Weng Lihua -- ch. 9. China's reforms : are there lessons for other countries? / Arjan de Haan, Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan.

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