Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism: Reflections inspired by WTO accession

China Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 107-136

  Woo, Wing Thye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence school; Dual track pricing; Economic reform in China; Economics of transition; Experimentalist school; Fiscal system; Privatization; State enterprise reform; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011702806     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(01)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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