TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mantzopoulos,Victoria L.
AU  - Shen,Raphael
TI  - The political economy of China's systemic transformation: 1979 to the present 
SN  - 9780230103030 (hardback)
AV  - HC 427.92 M293p 2011
U1  - 330.951 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Investments, Foreign
KW  - China
KW  - Inversiones extranjeras
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1976-2000
KW  - 2000-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Política económica
KW  - Condiciones económicas
N1  - Machine generated contents note: -- Legacies from Mao * The Political Economy of Reform After Mao * Reform Approach and Framework * Foreign Investment * Foreign Trade Reform * A Comparative Performance * Successes * Anomalies, Challenges * Concluding Observations
N2  - "After three decades of reign, Mao left China a structurally rigid and functionally inefficient economy. The imperative for systemic transformation was self-evident. By 2009, China's nominal GDP reached $4.9 trillion. Its 2010 foreign reserve is in excess of $2.4 trillion. China has surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. A statistical analysis of four countries indicates political stability and social calm helped gain the confidence of needed foreign investments. For China, it is foreign investment that has been fueling its export growth which in turn is most instrumental in its development path"--
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