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Privatization in China: Something to Learn From?

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For years it was embarrassing to talk about China at conferences on economic transformation. This was for two reasons. First, whereas I could report a success story, those colleagues specialized in the European economies in transformation could do nothing but speculate if and when the recession with which these economies seemed to be plagued would end. (See Table 1 for the most recent example.)

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Krug, B. (1997). Privatization in China: Something to Learn From?. In: Giersch, H. (eds) Privatization at the End of the Century. Publications of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60825-4_12

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