Since 1980, China's economy has been the envy of the world. Is annual growth rate of more than 9 percent during this period makes China today the world's fourth-largest economy. And this sustained growth has reduced the poverty rate from 60 percent of the population to less than 10 percent. However, such rapid growth has also increased inequalities in income and access to basic services and stressed natural resources. The government seeks to resolve these and other issues by creating a 'harmonious society' -- shifting priorities from the overriding pursuit of growth to more balanced economic...
Since 1980, China's economy has been the envy of the world. Is annual growth rate of more than 9 percent during this period makes China today the worl...
Lou Jiwei Jiwei Lou China Development Research Foundation
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, unlike many other books on China s economic reform which are written by outside observers.
Lou Jiwei (1950-) has been a leading researcher on economic restructuring and macroeconomic policy in a range of Chinese policy-making organisations. He has made important contributions to policy in the...
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...
