Local governance, policy mandates and fiscal reform in China

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 166-189

  Mingxing, Liu ^a   Ran, Tao ^b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84875182966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203961971     Document Type: Chapter

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