...Richard Hooley From Economic Miracle to Privatization Success: Initial Stages of the Privatization Process in Two SOEs on Taiwan . By Agnes Syu . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1995 . xiv, 272 pp. $39.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998...

...Robert H. Taylor SOE in the Far East . By Charles Cruickshank . New York : Oxford University Press , 1983 . Illustrations, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Notes, Appendixes, xv, 285 pp. $25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 460 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... This book has a mission: to show that a second revolution in state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform is urgently needed. To that end, the authors muster all the firepower they can. The most compelling (and most prominently presented) two arguments are that (1) once one adjusts SOE profits for all the indirect...

...-owned enterprises (SOEs) tend to focus on narrow measures of efficiency or profitability and to compare the performance of SOEs to that of private enterprises. The underlying rationale all too often is to show just how “bad” SOEs are and that the sooner they are privatized, the better. A more...

... on how you would define the "reform." If you consider that the core of transforming a Soviet-style centrally planned economy into a market economy should be the complete reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), especially the dominant, giant SOEs, your answer may be no. It is perhaps more sensible...

... officials. During the 1990s, for local officials and the Chinese state at large, pension reform became important not only as a tool of economic change but also as a way to reduce the negative social and political consequences of SOE layoffs and restructurings. What happened in urban China was a shift...

.... You would simply 272. $3.95. have delayed . . . And things would have got, not better, but worse, with delay." The Sacrifice and Other Stories. By DONALD Although the novel does not faithfully folMOORE. London: Arthur Barker, Ltd., low all the known facts of Aung San's career, 1957. 206. Lin Soe...

... See Osnos ( 2012 ) for a vivid illustration of this contracting system at work in the railway ministry. 10 For example, SOEs are largely in favor of a stronger yuan, while private exporters still support a weak yuan (Hung 2011 , 144). 9 Despite these advantages, SOEs still are less...

... reforms and better use of government resources. These requirements would first and foremost be directed toward solving the problems associated with China's state owned enterprises (SOEs). This is the subject of chapter 2. Since SOEs receive three quarters of industrial investment but only produce a third...

... (intended to smuggle rubber out of Japanese-occupied areas) became Operation Remorse (aimed at buying blackmarket Chinese National Dollars) would be difficult to surpass as a tale of official connivance successfully circumventing official venality. The heart of Cruickshank's thesis is that SOE...

... the formation of large state-owned corporations and corporation groups, then the debt problem worsened which threatened the state banking system, another important reform target of Zhu's, and then began Zhu's "debt-to-equity" scheme for SOEs. This logic continues. Driven by the same incentives that once led...

... economic activity" (p. 20), Hoa argues that international factors most prominently investment, terms of trade, and current account balances best explain growth and inflation rates. Harvie and Tony Naughton take up the crucial question of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). They offer a most useful review...

... had postponed real reform of the state-owned enterprises (SOE) sector and of the state-owned commercial banks. However, the economic weaknesses that had arisen thereby in the interim have now become serious enough to threaten the financial stability of the economy, and there is no doubt that tough...

..., the Zeng and Tsai chapter challenges assumptions about the positive association between private-sector development and SOE restructuring, finding that a booming private sector actually delayed SOE restructuring in some localities and that, ultimately, the criteria used for evaluating local officials “has...

... of Adelaide SOE in the Far East. By CHARLES CRUICKSHANK. New \brk: Oxford University Press, 1983- Illustrations, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Notes, Appendixes, xv, 285 pp. $25. SOE in the Far East is the official history of the Asian section of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), which...

...-owned enterprises (SOEs), which reap the bene ts of technological know-how, capital, and political support. In fact, as Huang writes, the parts of the country that reinforced the political pecking order more stringently Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin had the country s highest level of industrial...

... great and small." She is survived by her father, U Aung Thein; siblings in Myanmar, Pyone Pyone Maw, May Kyi Lay, Han Sein, May Kyi Ihawy, and Hla Han; and her niece, Soe Soe Nyien, a student at Northern Illinois University. RICHARD COOLER SUSAN RUSSELL Northern Illinois University Copyright ©...

... in their and their families' lives. The first three chapters examine the class politics of xiagang by critically reviewing the changed status of the Chinese working class and the relationships between laid-off workers, SOE managers, and the state. The next two chapters scrutinize, to a greater extent than the existing...

... this argument, Cai has compared recent policy adjustments in five areas: nonagricultural use of farm land, peasants' financial burdens, retrenchment of state-owned-enterprise (SOE) workers, retrenchment of collective enterprises, and house demolitions. He finds that the forcefulness of collective resistance...

... the critical changes that have marginalized some, and perhaps many, workers who, previous to economic reform, would have been coddled from crib to grave by the state owned enterprises (SOE). Now, the downsizing of SOEs is flooding the labor markets with migrant workers who may become employed by township...