TY - BOOK AU - Nolan, Peter TI - Transforming China: globalization, transition and development SN - 9781843311232 U1 - 330.951 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Anthem Press KW - China - Economic conditions KW - China - Industries KW - Globalisation - China KW - China - Politics and government - 1976-2002 KW - China - Commercial policy N2 - Author examines the enormous challanges faced by China's policymakers, from 1970s to 2004. The essays in this book address different aspects of those chalanges. The 'development' challenge involved devising policies that would raise the mass of the Chinese people out of poverty and avoid the disasters taht had, in the worst cases, caused millions of deaths through famine. The transition challange involved, firstly, resolving the relationship between change in the economic and political systems, and secondly, finding the correct sequence and nature of reforms necessasary to improve economic performance ER -