Market Reforms Versus Structural Reforms in Rural China

Death in China: market reforms and health.

Has China's remarkable reduction in income poverty since 1980 been accompanied by comparable progress in health? The author's findings are fourfold. First, province-level rates of improvement in life expectancy (LE) were higher in the 1990s than in the 1970s and 1980s, and were lowest in the 1980s. Second, even in the 1990s, when the province-level rates of improvement in LE were highest, they ...

Agricultural Policy Reforms Reforms and Rural Development in Turkey

Impacts of economic reforms on rural forestry in China

This paper addresses the effects of economic transition policies on forestry in China. The effects of de-collectivization and market liberalization on the forest land area and timber harvest are studied using panel data from four provinces covering the period 1978]1995. Fixed effects ordinary least squares models for forest land cover and annual harvests per hectare are estimated, allowing for ...

Can Structural Reforms Help Europe?∗

Structural reforms that reduce product and labor market markups in peripheral Europe by 10 percentage points can improve competitiveness in that region and boost unionwide output by almost 5%. If implemented during a crisis that takes the nominal interest rate to its lower bound, however, these reforms have short-run contractionary effects of more than 1% on impact, thus deepening the recession...

Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education