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The Three Reforms China Must Enact: Land, Social Services, and Taxes

Harvard Business Review

Failure to present a groundbreaking new vision risks leaving in place old economic drivers, especially the over-reliance on fixed-asset investment, that have created serious challenges such as China’s “ghost cities” and high levels of local government debt.

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China’s Growth: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. What about spillover gains tied to foreign direct investment, joint ventures, and other ties to developed countries? There was also a slowdown in TFP after the mid 1990s. In 2005, the OECD estimated that annual TFP growth averaged 3.7%

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