Challenging the economic reform paradigm: Policy and politics in the early 1980s' Collapse of the rural co-operative medical system

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 205, 2011, Pages 80-95

  Duckett, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; DECOLLECTIVIZATION; ECONOMIC POLICY; ECONOMIC REFORM; ELITE POLITICS; HEALTH POLICY; POLITICAL RELATIONS; RURAL POLICY; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 80052229483     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741010001402     Document Type: Article

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