Racing to the Bottom or to the Top? Decentralization, Revenue Pressures, and Governance Reform in China

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  2017

• Venue

  World Development

• Publication date

  2017-07-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.WORLDDEV.2017.02.021
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