JPA331Y1 Lecture Notes - Hard Target, Market Power, Open Media
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Why should we separate local and central government responsibilities: more generic reason: different levels of states have different objectives and goals. That is why we should separate local and central government. Central government is concerned with survival of the communist party, economic growth rate, local officials career advancement, local economies are their primary concerns. Bigger issues such as legitimacy of the ccp is not so much the worries of local officials as long as it does not affect their job opportunity or career advancement. Raising local growth rate: soft target. Farmer"s income, literacy rates, health care provisions. The things that you thought was supposed to be important are a soft target instead. All local governments devote financial resources to finance companies and they pressure banks to give up money. Developed throughout rural china and you wonder what is the rationale behind the existence of.
