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Pareto-Improving Economic Reforms through Dual-Track Liberalization

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Lau, Lawrence J
Qian, Yingyi
Roland, Gérard

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Pareto-improving economic reforms that also simultaneously achieve efficiency can be implemented through a strategy of ‘dual-track’ liberalization. Its success requires the feasibility of the original plan and its continued enforcement by the state. The Chinese experience demonstrates that such a strategy works.

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Keywords: Dual-track price liberalization General Equilibrium Pareto-improving economic reforms

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D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
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