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An Essay on 
Economic Reforms and Social Change in China
 
 
Assar Lindbeck 
Institute for International Economic Studies
Stockholm University
and
Research Institute for Industrial Economics, Stockholm 
 
 
 
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4057, November 2006 
The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage 
the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out 
quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors 
and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper 
are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its 
Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Policy Research Working Papers are available 
online at http://econ.worldbank.org. 
 
 
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The author is grateful for useful comments on earlier versions of the paper from Charles 
Abelmann, Dario Caldara, Gregory Chow, Peter Heller, Bert Hofman, Robert Holzmann, 
Nick Lardy, Peter Nolan, Martin Ravallion, Zmarak Shalizi, Gordon Tullock, Shuilin 
Wang, Hans Wijkander, Solveig Wikström, Changgang Xu, Ziaoqing Yu and Ziaobo 
Zhang. Astrid Wake has helped with literature search and David Zimmerman has checked 
the references. 
WPS4057

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