To Get Rich Is Glorious

To Get Rich Is Glorious
Author: Jacques deLisle
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815737262

" In 1978, China launched economic reforms that have resulted in one of history’s most dramatic national transformations. The reforms removed bureaucratic obstacles to economic growth and tapped China’s immense reserves of labor and entrepreneurial talent to unleash unparalleled economic growth in the country. In the four decades since, China has become the world’s second-largest economy after the United States, and a leading force in international trade and investment. As the contributors to this volume show, China also faces daunting challenges in sustaining growth, continuing its economic ransformation, addressing the adverse consequences of economic success, and dealing with mounting suspicion from the United States and other trade and investment partners. China also confronts risks stemming from the project to expand its influence across the globe through infrastructure investments and other projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, appears determined to make his own lasting mark on the country and on China’s use of its economic clout to shape the world around it. "

Impact of Economic Reforms on Economic Issues

Impact of Economic Reforms on Economic Issues
Author: Selvam Jesiah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

This paper is an attempt to investigate the impact of economic reforms on the economic issues in Ethiopia. Different economic issues - parameters determining the effectiveness of economic reforms are separately discussed to measure how far Ethiopia has benefited from the reform policy. A simple and comparative analysis of various economic indicators between the pre-reform and post-reform, that is, between 1985/86 - 19991/92 and 19992/93-2001/02, reveals that those economic reforms have revamped the economy by moving its GDP from its long-standing poor record to a respectful growing state. Nevertheless, the reforms have failed in attaining other direct economic objectives, such as standard of living, external debt, trade balance deficit and current account deficit. Economic reforms have, no doubt, attracted a significant amount of private investment, but its volume started declining within the reform period and so were privatization proceeds. This study suggests that a full-fledged and committed reforms is indispensable at the earliest to attaining the full benefits of reform policy.

Human Rights and Economic Policy Reform

Human Rights and Economic Policy Reform
Author: Aoife Nolan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-09-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000454061

This book deals with the complex and challenging relationship between economic policy and human rights. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the need to address the conceptual and methodological (dis)connects between these two areas is more pressing than ever. Inspired by the 2019 United Nations Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIA) for Economic Reform Policies, this book brings together experts working on human rights and economic policy from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, law, and development studies. The contributions reflect a huge body of professional experience in the academic, policy-making, advocacy, and practitioner fields. They cover issues including the politics of evidence in the context of HRIA, economic inequality, child rights impact assessment of economic reforms, economic policy and women’s human rights, tax regimes for multinational corporations and human rights, as well as the human rights impacts of the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection also includes the text of the Guiding Principles themselves. It constitutes a crucial volume for scholars, policymakers, advocates and others working on the burning topic of human rights and economic policy reform. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Impact on the Global Economy

Economic Reforms in Centrally Planned Economies and their Impact on the Global Economy
Author: Jozef M. van Brabant
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1991-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780333558119

This volume focuses on the important issues raised by the recent economic reforms of the centrally planned economies of China, South-East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Participation in the international trade regime and how this may be affected by the economic reforms; implications of the reforms for economic relations with developing countries and development assistance performance; participation in international monetary and financial regimes and how this may be affected by economic reform; and the impact of economic reform on regional integration schemes are all analysed in depth.

Economic Reforms for Global Competitiveness

Economic Reforms for Global Competitiveness
Author: Ushakov, Denis
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522538577

Reforms are a necessary part of social and economic regulation. Each year, political pressure for economic reform becomes more prevalent, especially from various international organizations and business associations. Economic Reforms for Global Competitiveness is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on important factors of modern countries’ social and economic dynamics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as human capital, project management, and fiscal reforms, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and students seeking the latest material on the role and impact of economic reforms.

The Political Economy of Policy Reform

The Political Economy of Policy Reform
Author: John Williamson
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780881321951

Policymakers around the world have increasingly agreed that macroeconomic discipline, microeconomic liberalization, and outward orientation are prerequisites for economic success. But what are the political conditions that make economic transformation possible? At a conference held at the Institute for International Economics, leaders of economic reform recounted their efforts to bring about change and discussed the impact of the political climate on the success of their efforts. In this book, these leaders explore the political conditions conducive to the success of policy reforms. Did economic crisis strengthen the hands of the reformers? Was the rapidity with which reforms were instituted crucial? Did the reformers have a "honeymoon" period in which to transform the economy? The authors answer these and other questions, as well as providing first-hand accounts of the politically charged atmosphere surrounding reform efforts in their countries.

India in the Era of Economic Reforms

India in the Era of Economic Reforms
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Contributed articles presented at a conference held in 1996.

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

Economic Reforms in New Democracies
Author: Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1993-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521438452

A 1993 assessment of differing experiences of the transition to democracy in the countries of Southern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Political Competition, Economic Reform and Growth

Political Competition, Economic Reform and Growth
Author: Ivan Pavletic
Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3728132969

Which political and institutional factors trigger reforms that enable the poor to benefit from the process of economic growth? How can the incentives of policy makers be influenced in order to achieve such a dynamic? These are the questions this study seeks to address by examining the transition process in post-communist countries. The author argues that political competition within an accepted and respected institutional environment has been a driving force in shaping the direction and success of transition reforms. Evidence shows that in countries with a sufficient degree of political competition, citizens responded to economic crises by calling for economic liberalization. Economic liberalization removed existing distortions, increased economic efficiency and raised public welfare. This activated a dynamic, self-enforcing reform process that also strengthened the political and economic power of the poor. In the absence of political competition, such a process failed to emerge, thereby contributing to the persistence of poverty. Based on these findings, there is good reason to postulate that some level of political competition is essential for transition reforms to improve economic efficiency and public welfare in a sustainable manner.