PROPERTY-RIGHTS IN CHINA ECONOMIC-REFORMS

Authors
Citation
R. Smyth, PROPERTY-RIGHTS IN CHINA ECONOMIC-REFORMS, Communist and post-communist studies, 31(3), 1998, pp. 235-248
Citations number
58
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","International Relations
ISSN journal
0967067X
Volume
31
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
235 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0967-067X(1998)31:3<235:PICE>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
This paper explores China's experience with property rights reform. In contrast to most countries in East Central Europe and the former Sovi et Union, China has experimented with different ownership forms and th is has been quite successful, Over the last two decades China has had the highest growth rate in the world. The main argument presented here is that private property rights alone cannot provide a theory for Chi na's economic success and that the whole process is too complex to be reduced to canonical explanations. To this end the paper reviews recen t evidence in the three main areas of reform-agriculture, rural indust rialisation and state-owned sector reform. (C) 1998 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.