China's Urban and Rural Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) system recently was formed to integrate two prior-existing government health insurance programs for low income citizens: the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (for rural residents) and the Urban Residents' Basic Medical Insurance...

Volume 17 of International Finance Review focuses on a variety of issues relating to the political economy of Chinese finance, including: the pattern of government ownership and control of Chinese firms; the role of government in corporate governance of industrial and financial firms; the...

Front Cover -- The Political Economy of Chinese Finance -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I: An Overview and Conceptual Foundations -- Market Socialism with "Chinese Characteristics" -- Introduction -- Timeline of China's Economic Reform -- Confucianism, Socialism,...