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Public finance in China : reform and growth for a harmonious society / edited by Jiwei Lou, Shuilin Wang
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : World Bank, c2008Description: Online-Ressource (xxviii, 369 p) : ill ; 23 cmISBN:- 082136927X
- 0821369288
- 9780821369272
- 9780821369289
- 336.51 22
- HJ1401
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Summary: This publication focuses on public finance, development economics, and the Chinese economy. The government will focus on the public good aspects of education and training-compulsory education and some aspects of higher education and training. The publication encourages seven reforms including raising government expenditure on education to four percent of gross domestic product (GDP), and ensuring that all children actually receive nine years of basic education. Improving and widening access to medical care, especially for the rural population. The target is to extend the cooperative medical scheme to 80 percent of the rural population from the current coverage rate of just over 20 percent. China has sufficient fiscal resources to afford the level and type of spending commensurate with a harmonious society. This reallocation of resources can be done only gradually. It must go hand in hand with a better specification of roles and functions of the various levels of China and stronger mechanisms for accountability, to ensure that poorer local governments use the resources given to them.PPN: PPN: 724185682Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-wba | ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBL
Foreword/ by James W. Adams -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Overview/ Shuilin Wang -- Part I: Role of the state and public finances -- Public finances, the role of the state, and economic transformation, 1978- 2020/ Athar Hussain and Nicholas Stern -- Intergovernmental fiscal reforms, expenditure assignment, and governance/ David Dollar and Bert Hofman -- Fiscal policy and reforms: toward realizing a harmonious society/ Teresa Ter-Minassian and Annalisa Fedelino -- Part II: Fiscal reform and revenue assignments -- Expenditure assignments in China: challenges and policy options/ Jorge Martinez-Vazquez ... [et al.] -- Taxation reforms and the sequencing of intergovernmental reforms in China: preconditions for a Xiaokang society/ Ehtisham Ahmad -- Part III: Intergovernmental relations and fiscal transfers -- Fine-tuning the intergovernmental transfer system to create a harmonious society and a level playing field for regional development/ Anwar Shah and Chunli Shen -- The reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations in China: lessons learned/ Jiwei Lou -- Creating a regulatory framework for managing subnational borrowing/ Lili Liu -- Part IV: Education and innovation financing -- Financing lifelong learning/ Carl Dahlman, Douglas Zhihua Zeng, and Shuilin Wang -- Strengthening China's technological capability/ Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima -- Part V: The public health system: access, service delivery, and financing -- Financing public health/ David B. Evans and Ke Xu -- Health reform in rural China: challenges and options/ Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow -- Part VI: Social security -- Notional defined contribution accounts: a pension reform model worth considering/ Jiange Li, Mark Dorfman, and Yan Wang -- Realizing the potential of China's social security pension system/ Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Liebman -- Part VII: Growth, inequality and fiscal reform -- Does the Di Bao program guarantee a minimum income in China's cities?/ Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Youjuan Wang -- Growth, inequality, and fiscal policy from a historical perspective: are there lessons for China?/ François Bourguignon.
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