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Rural China takes off : institutional foundations of economic reform

Jean C. Oi
In this analysis of one of the most spectacular breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world.
Print Book, English, 1999
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999
xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780520200067, 9780520217270, 9780585277554, 0520200063, 0520217276, 0585277559
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1. Institutional Foundations of Chinese Economic Growth: An Introduction
2. Reassigning Property Rights over Revenue: Incentives for Rural Industrialization
3. Strategies of Development: Variation and Evolution in Rural Industry
4. Local State Corporatism: The Organization of Rapid Economic Growth
5. Principals and Agents: Central Regulation or Local Control
6. From Agents to Principals: Increasing Resource Endowments and Local Control
7. The Political Basis for Economic Reform: Concluding Reflections
App. B. Changes in China's Fiscal System
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