This paper probes into the cognitive process of governmental elites in post-World War II era and the formation of their ideology, and in turn their impact on governmental elites’ intentions to intervene in economy. The empirical evidences suggest fac ......
Qi Zhang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Mingxing Liu
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Politics has been playing an important role in the evolution of institutions. After
accounting for political factor, even theoretically good institutional changes, as
suggested by traditional induced institutional change theory, may end up with fai ......
we attempt to present an exploratory survey of the problem of unemployment in rural China by sketching four main ‘typologies’ to have arisen in recent years: farmers who become dispossessed through land requisitions; rural cadres and teachers who are ......
By measuring the tax burdens for both Chinese urban and the rural households in the 1990s, we find that the taxes on the urban households were mainly indirect taxes through consumption of goods and services while those on rural households were largel ......
Temporary migration due to lack of social security for migrants, rural land tenure insecurity due to frequent land reallocation and abusive land requisition due to lack of functioning land markets s are all major policy challenges that China is facin ......
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