… Xu Chenggang, Qian Yingyi, Gérard Roland, and Barry Weingast, among the first scholars
to discuss the relationship between fiscal decentralization and local government incentives …

… study of the phenomenon called the “Chinese economic miracle” by distilling policy lessons
for … initiated the era of reform and opening up by decentralizing agriculture and gradually …

… , in the Chinese context, the degree of fiscal decentralization in a region (notably a province)
affects the degree of urban agglomeration. The more decentralized the intergovernmental …

… Only by understanding the causes of China’s rapid economic growth and revealing the
advantages and disadvantages of the country’s current development can we compare China to …

… with Chinese characteristics and a techno-economic paradigm, this paper tries to explain
how the Chinese growth miracle … This shift of mode of regulation from decentralised industrial …

… factors at work in China’s economic miracle on the basis of the … deepen the study of the
basic issues of socialist economic theory. … A weak government with excessive decentralization …

… engine of China’s miracle growth, and … China’s political economy. While the 1994 fiscal
reform recentralized tax revenues, countervailing policies substantially promoted decentralization …

… The following section lays out our hypotheses following a discussion of China’s transfer-based
decentralisation. The next section describes the data, defines variables and presents our …

… Therefore, we wonder whether the power of land approval is … in China, we argue that it is
feasible for central governments to … The variation of targets of central government, caused by the …

… how decentralization of administrative and fiscal authority affects the development of small
cities by exploiting a unique reform of county-to-city upgrading (chexiansheshi) in China. …