The Chinese economy in crisis : state capacity and tax reform / by Wang Shaoguang and Hu Angang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Shaoguang, 1954-

Contributor:

Hu, Angang.

Series:

Studies on contemporary China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--China.

Taxation.

China.

Fiscal policy--China.

Fiscal policy.

China--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

China--Politics and government--1976-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

ix, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2001]

Summary:

This is one of the most influential and controversial Chinese studies of the Chinese economy published in recent years. The authors argue strongly that the decentralization that has taken place in China since the 1980s threatens to undermine the future of reform and perhaps even the state itself. They contend that reform has undermined state capacity in China, and that the state's fiscal revenues, as a percentage of GNP, have declined and will continue to decline into the foreseeable future, thereby putting China in the ranks of the least "statist" societies, and weakening the country's ability to mobilize resources for modernization.

Contents:

Part I The Decline of State Capacity

Abstract of Perspectives

Introduction: What Does the Continuous Decline of the Two Ratios Imply?

Chapter 1 State Capacity

Chapter 2 The Evolution of China's State Capacity

Chapter 3 The Primary Reasons for the Decline in the State's Fiscal Capacity

Chapter 4 The Grave Consequences of the Decline of the State's Fiscal Capacity

Chapter 5 The Role of the Central Government in the Transformation to a Market Economy

Chapter 6 Paths to, and Suggestions Regarding, Enhancing the State's Financial Extractive Capacity

Part II Tax Reform

Chapter 7 Background to Writing the Report on State Capacity

Chapter 8 An Arduous and Difficult Institutional Innovation.

Notes:

"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765607654

0765607662

OCLC:

46456268