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100 _aMohanty, Manoranjan
245 _aChina's reforms: the Wuxi story
260 _c2009
300 _ap.308-19.
362 _a27 Jun
520 _aBased on a 30-year micro-study of economic reforms in Wuxi city and Hela township, this paper points out that development through political urbanisation the Wuxi way may achieve fast economic growth but has its social, environmental and political costs. it traces the three phases of reforms the region has passed through, attaining a spectacular rise in gross domestic product and household incomes. But later developments have negated some of the achievements of the earlier stages of reform. It proposes that the authorities initiate genuine grass roots democracy so that local people will have the power to decide on matters that affect them. - Reproduced.
650 _aEconomic reform - China
650 _aEconomic reform
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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