TY - BOOK AU - Brandt, Loren AU - Brandt, Loren AU - Rawski, Thomas G TI - China's Great Economic Transformation SN - 9780521712903 U1 - 330.951 BRA PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge PB - :Cambridge University Press KW - Economics KW - Business & Economics Economic Conditions KW - Business & Economics Economic History KW - Business & Economics Economics Comparative KW - China KW - China Economic conditions 1976-2000 KW - China Economic conditions 2000- KW - Chine Conditions économiques 1976-2000 KW - Economic history N1 - China's great economic transformation China and development economics China in light of the performance of the transition economies A political economy of China's economic transition The demographic factor in China's transition The Chinese labor market in the reform era Education in the reform era Environmental resources and economic growth Science and technology in China The political economy of private sector development in China The role of law in China's economic development China's fiscal system: a work in progress Agriculture in China's development: past disappointments, recent successes, and future challenges China's financial system: past, present, and future China's industrial development China's embrace of globalization Growth and structural transformation in China Income inequality during China's economic transition Spatial dimensions of Chinese economic development Forecasting China's economic growth to 2025 N2 - This study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the period since the 1980s. The authors explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions and expose the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of her great boom ER -