China's Local Public Finance in Transition
China's Local Public Finance in Transition

Author: Joyce Y. Man

Publisher: Lincoln Inst of Land Policy

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9781558442016

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China's economy has developed rapidly since the economic reforms in 1978, but public finance reforms have proceeded more slowly. This book looks at three major policy options addressing the underlying imbalance between revenues and expenditures at the local level in China. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in local fiscal issues in China.

Public Finance in China
Public Finance in China

Author: Jiwei Lou

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0821369288

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Since 1980, China's economy has been the envy of the world. Is annual growth rate of more than 9 percent during this period makes China today the world's fourth-largest economy. And this sustained growth has reduced the poverty rate from 60 percent of the population to less than 10 percent. However, such rapid growth has also increased inequalities in income and access to basic services and stressed natural resources. The government seeks to resolve these and other issues by creating a 'harmonious society' -- shifting priorities from the overriding pursuit of growth to more balanced economic and social development. This volume compiles analyses and insights from high-level Chinese policy makers and prominent international scholars that address the changes needed in public finance for success in the government's new endeavor. It examines such key policy issues as public finance and the changing role of the state; fiscal reform and revenue and expenditure assignments; intergovernmental relations and fiscal transfers; and financing and delivery of basic public goods such as compulsory education, innovation, public health, and social protection. And it offers concrete recommendations for immediate policy changes and for China's future reform agenda. Public Finance in China' is a must-read for specialists in public finance and for those seeking an understanding of the complex and daunting challenges China is facing.

Assessing the Balance of Power in Central-Local Relations in China
Assessing the Balance of Power in Central-Local Relations in China

Author: John Donaldson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1317205332

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How do we understand the evolution of central-local relations in China during the reform period? This book addresses this question by focusing on eight separate issues in which the central-local relationship has been especially salient – government finance, investment control, regional development, administrative zoning, implementation, culture, social welfare and international relations. Each chapter introduces a sector and the way the center and various local governments have shared or divided power over the different periods of China’s reform era. The balance of power is gauged dynamically over time to measure the extent to which one level of government dominates, influences or shares power in making decisions in each of these particular domains, as well as what is likely to occur in the foreseeable future. The authors assess the winners and losers of these changes among key actors in China’s society. The result provides a dynamic view of China’s changing power relations.

Central and Local Finance in China
Central and Local Finance in China

Author: Chuan Shih Li

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781334816994

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Excerpt from Central and Local Finance in China: A Study of the Fiscal Relations Between the Central, the Provincial, and the Local Governments Influenced by the wave of political democracy of the Occident, China is now in the throes of agitation for pro vincial and local self-government, which is virtually nu attainable without separation of the sources of revenue be tween the Central and the Provincial Governments on the one hand and between the Provincial and the Local Governments on the other. This monograph is the author's humble attempt to solve this urgent politico - fiscal problem which has been absorbing the attention of his conscientious compatriots during the last decade or two. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Central and Local Finance in China; a Study of the Fiscal Relations Between the Central, the Provincial, and the Local Governments
Central and Local Finance in China; a Study of the Fiscal Relations Between the Central, the Provincial, and the Local Governments

Author: Chüan-Shih Li

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781230199092

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...of the prefect, and all loans for over 30 years (or their amount exceeding 1,000,000 francs) must be approved by decrees of the President issued in the Council of State. All lottery loans, departmental or communal, must be authorized by a special law.1 During the World War, short-term bonds were resorted to by the departments and the communes as a result of the shortage of revenue. This process of raising revenue was sanctioned by the central government through a ministerial decree and through the final ratification by Parliament in 1915. The law was still effective in 1920. The emission must first be approved by the Council of State.2 Central and Local Finance in Japan. Japan is one of the countries which have adopted the French system of local administration. Hers is just as centralized and bureaucratic as the French. Although during the earlier days, Japan's administrative system was modeled after that of China, her system of local administration resembles the French more than the Chinese, for Japan has always made theory and practice coincide, which is usually not the case in China. Japan up to Dec. 31st, 1918 was territorially and administratively divided as follows.3 1 Allix, op. cit., pp. 838-839. 2 Allix, op. cit., p. 839. 3 The Twentieth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1920, p. 2. All the administrative and executive officials from the mayor of the city up are appointed by the emperor. The towns and villages have elective assemblies by which the mayor and other officials are chosen. In 1880, the promise of prefectural assemblies was fulfilled, but they do not possess absolute control of their local affairs--in fact, they are not entirely independent of the central government; in all cases the financial ratification rests...