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A fiscal silver bullet? Ending local government austerity with “asset revitalization”

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To read this as a PDF, click here. Executive summary

China’s provinces are increasingly turning to “charges on the usage of state resources (assets)” – fees, leases, and royalties generated from government-controlled holdings – to make up the fiscal shortfall left by the collapse in land sales. In ...



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