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China: Social Security in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth

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China has experienced extraordinarily rapid economic growth in the past two decades. For the years 2002–2005, it registered a 9 per cent average annual growth rate. It is now predicted that China’s economy will grow by 8.8 per cent for 2007, down only slightly from this year’s expected 9.5 per cent (Asian Development Bank, 2006). The country’s remarkable performance makes it the fastest growing of the world’s major economies. By some measures, China accounts for an even bigger share of global growth than does the United States.

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  1. Kwong-leung Tang
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley, USA

    James Midgley (Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services) (Harry and Riva Specht Professor of Public Social Services)

  2. Department of Social Work, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Kwong-leung Tang (Chair and Professor of Social Work) (Chair and Professor of Social Work)

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Tang, Kl., Man-hung, R.N. (2008). China: Social Security in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth. In: Midgley, J., Tang, Kl. (eds) Social Security, the Economy and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582194_6

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