ABSTRACT
As I have done for the West in Chapter 5, I will first present the economic performance of China’s reforms since 1978, what I have called China’s New Public Management. Then I will present the negative economic and social consequences of these reforms. 1 In the second section I will also devote some space to the analysis of the consequences of the new policies that ‘put people first’ on the rebalancing of Chinese society. I will propose an answer to the question: have these policies succeeded in reversing the trend towards increased inequalities and environmental damages that appeared since the beginning of reforms in the1980s?
