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Institutional Change and Economic Growth in China: The View from the Villages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Victor Nee  and
Su Sijin
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The maoist era of egalitarian collectivism has decidedly come to an end. Although some villages persist in developing cooperative enterprises, the collective is being transformed from a dominant organizational form to one that plays a subsidiary role to the private household sector. In effect, the collective has been relegated to the position formerly held by the private sector. Everywhere the emphasis is on economic growth based on household production and marketlike forces. What is the relationship between these institutional changes and economic growth?

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 1990 , pp. 3 - 25
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990

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