ABSTRACT
Second, health policy makers looking for practical advice often get caught between theoretically prescribed solutions and peculiar local constraints. The twists and turns of reforms in many countries repeatedly echo what Marc Roberts and his colleagues said:
We thus provide the policy-makers/reformers of China and other transitional economies with a set of analytically rigorous evidence as well as with prescriptions on several integral dimensions of the reform. This special issue aims to facilitate vigorous policy learning and policy transfer through evidence-based results.
