China's Market Economy: Implications for the World Tradin...
Wall, David / Holmes, Peter / Kempton, Jeremy
Among the contentious issues relating to China's application for membership of the World Trade Organization is its designation as a non-market economy. The first publication of the Chatham House China Task Force, this report addresses various aspects of this issue. David Wall examines the concept of a 'market economy' and, on the basis of fieldwork undertaken in China in 1997, concludes that it is no longer reasonable to treat China as a non-m...