Competition, incentives, and productivity in Chinese township and village enterprises

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-113

  Nugent, Jeffrey B ^b   Perrigne, Isabelle M ^a   Qiu, Jicheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL ECONOMY;

EID: 0032796789     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.00066     Document Type: Article

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