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Australia's Asia-Pacific journey. by Ross Garnaut
tag=1 data=Australia's Asia-Pacific journey. by Ross Garnaut
tag=2 data=Garnaut, Ross
tag=3 data=AQ Australian Quarterly,
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tag=6 data=Summer 1992
tag=7 data=359-378.
tag=8 data=FOREIGN AFFAIRS
tag=10 data=Australia has in recent years resumed an Asia-Pacific journey, to reconcile powerful regional economic and geostrategic interests with its European history, traditions and culture.
tag=11 data=1993/5/5
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tag=13 data=CABAustralia has in recent years resumed an Asia-Pacific journey, to reconcile powerful regional economic and geostrategic interests with its European history, traditions and culture
Deepening reform for China's long-term growth and development
The Chinese economy has entered a new phase of development in which sources of growth are not so much dependent upon pure increases in labour, investment and credit expansion, but from productivity improvement, structural changes, technological progress and the benefits from improvement of the social security and welfare improvement. When market functions are fully established to become a main channel for allocating resources, the entrepreneurship will flourish engaging in more innovative activities, workers will move more freely and have more incentives to improve their skills, firms will become more productive through market entry and exit, the economic structure will become more balanced because of the improved resource allocation, and in the end, growth will become more spontaneous and sustainable. In this sense, reforms could deliver ‘dividend’ by raising China’s potential economic growth rates.
For China to confront all the challenges it faces at present, the reforms undertaken now have to be deep, comprehensive and far-reaching in order to succeed in paving the way for China to complete the task of transformation in the long-term. There is no better alternative than deepening the market-oriented reform in advancing the course of China’s modernisation for future development and prosperity and lifting China to the status of a developed economy in the next two decades. The recent China update books have covered the topic of reform from different angles and this new book is another attempt to address this important issue
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