Public finance in China
Subtitle: reform and growth for a harmonious society
By: edited by Jiwei Lou, Shuilin Wang.
Contributors: Lou, Jiwei, 1950-; Wang, Shuilin.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780821369272; 9780821369289
Subjects: Finance, Public -- China; China -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface (editor's word); title: Expenditure assignments within a framework of decentralization; title: Public finance, the role of the state and economic transformation in China: 1978- 2020 / by Athar Hussain and Nicholas Stern; title: Intergovernmental fiscal reform, expenditure assignment and governance / by David Dollar and Bert Hofman; title: Expenditure assignments in China / by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Baoyun Qiao, Shuilin Wang and Heng-Fu Zou; title: Fiscal reform and revenue assignments; title: China's fiscal policy and reform: toward realizing a harmonious society / by Teresa Ter-Minassian and Annalisa Fedelino; title: Taxation reform and sequencing of intergovernmental reform in China : preconditions for a Xiaokang society / by Ehtisham Ahmad; title: Conformity between revenue attribution and its revenue source: new rule on inter-local governmental revenue division in China / by Shanda Xu and Daoshu Wang; title: Intergovernmental fiscal relations and transfers; title: Fine tuning the intergovernmental transfer system to achieve a harmonious society and a level playing field for regional development in China / by Anwar Shah and Chunli Shen; title: China's reform process of intergovernmental relations and lessons learnt / by Jiwei Lou; title: Managing sub-national borrowing: reform options for China / by Lili Liu; title: Education and innovation financing; title: The challenge of life long learning for education finance in China / by Carl Dahlman, Douglas Zhihua Zeng and Shuilin Wang; title: Financing basic education in China / by Shaochun Zhang; title: Strengthening China's technological capability / by Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima; title: The public health system: access, services delivery and financing; title: Public health in China: challenges and intended reforms / by Qiang Gao; title: Health reform in rural China: where next? / by Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow; title: Financing public health in China / by David B. Evans; title: Social protection and social security; title: Growth, inequality and fiscal policy from a historical perspective: are there lessons for China? / by Francois Bourguignon; title: Realizing the potential of China's social security pension system / by Martin Feldstein; title: Notional defined contribution: an approach to pension reform worthy of consideration / by Jiange Li; title: A public safety net for China's old and new poor? / by Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen.