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The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China

, 2023
In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule?
Susan L. Shirk
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The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991

, 2023
Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas. In this examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst
J. Herbst
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Reforming Credit Reform

Public Budgeting & Finance, 2008
The Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA) improved the treatment of credit in the federal budget, but failed to make the budget cost of credit and noncredit programs fully comparable. Inconsistencies and downwardly biased credit costs arise from the restriction under FCRA that cash flows be discounted at Treasury rates, and from the omission of certain ...
Marvin Phaup, Deborah Lucas
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Electricity market reform and 'reform of the reforms'

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 2008
For over two decades, policymakers and regulators in a number of countries around the world have been grappling with market reform, liberalisation, restructuring and privatisation issues. Although a great deal has been learned in the process and a blueprint for implementation has emerged, successful market design still remains partly art and partly ...
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Reform Communism or Economic Reform

1993
The 1960s, more precisely the years following 1956 until 1968, witnessed two major developments in the post war history of Eastern Europe: the birth of economic reform and the beginnings of heterodoxy between the Warsaw Pact countries, as Stalinism was replaced by neo-Stalinism. Even as Khrushchev was promising a rosy future based on the superiority of
Geoffrey Swain, Nigel Swain
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Reforming Welfare Reform [PDF]

Behavior and Social Issues, 1998
The United States is currently engaged in a wide-scale social experiment: the dismantling of entitlement programs in the name of welfare reform. While behavior and cultural analysts have been only minimally involved in these efforts, there are many contributions that they might make that could potentially improve aggregate outcomes for everyone ...
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