In the early days of nationalization, it seemed axiomatic that price and quality standards could be better managed by State Owned Enterprises (SOE). Subsequent experience, however demonstrates that public ownership and control are different as the challenges of imposing effective public...

How to keep Chinese economy’s high growth rate in a long run toward the fully modernized era of China is the major topic of this paper. This letter will develop some theories as a guidance of Chinese economic reforms and development and show the necessary reforms and strategies for long term...

The new growth literature, using both endogenous growth and neoclassical models, has generated strong claims for the effect of national policies on economic growth. Empirical work on policies and growth has tended to confirm these claims. This paper casts doubt on this claim for strong effects...