Vivienne Shue / Christine Wong (eds.)

Paying for Progress in China

Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality
Herausgeber: Shue, Vivienne; Wong, Christine

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Produktbeschreibung

China's economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'. This work includes essays which trace the causes of this inequality, using data including surveys, interviews, official statistics and fieldwork. It exposes the malfunctioning of China's intergovernmental fiscal system.

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China's stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'. This collection traces the causes of this growing inequality, using new data including surveys, interviews, newly available official statistics and in-depth fieldwork.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 164mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415422543
• ISBN-10: 041542254X
• Artikelnr.: 22522663

Autorenporträt

Vivienne Shue is the Leverhulme Professor and Director of the Contemporary China Studies Programme at Oxford University. Christine Wong is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Is China Moving to a More Equitable Development Strategy? 1.
Can the Retreat from Equality Be Reversed? An Assessment of Redistributive
Fiscal Policies from Deng Xiaoping to Wen Jiabao 2. Has China Reached the
Top of the Kuznets Curve? 3. Local Governance, Health Financing, and
Changing Patterns of Inequality in Access to Health Care 4. Paying for
Education in Rural China 5. Social Security in Transition 6. Investing in
Rural China: Tracking China's Commitment to Modernization 7. Who Receives
Subsidies? A Look at the County Level in Two Time Periods 8. Local
Governance, Policy Mandates and Fiscal Reform in China