Chinese Economy in the 1990s

JUN MA is currently an economist with the International Monetary Fund. He worked as a research fellow at the Development Research Center for the State Council of P.R. China between 1988 and 1990, and served as a consultant and public policy specialist at the World Bank from 1992-97. His main areas of research include the Chinese and other East Asian economies, fiscal management, monetary and banking issues, and state-owned enterprise reform. He is the author of more than sixty journal articles and book chapters published in English and Chinese, and the winner of several nation-wide paper competitions in the US. Mr. Ma earned his B.S. and M.S. from Fudan University in China, and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in the US.

• List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction and Overview Fiscal Reform Monetary Reform Banking Reform: From Administrative Control to a Regulatory Framework Development of the Stock Markets State-owned Enterprise Reform Export Promotion Strategies Regional Policy under the Strategy of Economic Opening Decentralization and Provinces' Growth Performances Endnotes Bibliography Index

'Jun Ma's survey of a number of major topics in China's post-1978 economic reforms is a welcome addition to what has become an essential Palgrave series. Its 2000 publication date enables it to fill a definite gap in the market by making available in book form detailed discussions of fiscal and monetary reforms, the continuing problems of state-owned enterprises, the development of China's two stock exchanges, and decentralisation and regional economic policy, which take the story, in most cases, right up to the end of the 1990s.' - Jackie Sheehan, The Times Educational Supplement