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Focused on unique features of economic development, this edited volume examines the nature and structure of corporate governance of several key state-owned enterprises in China and public sector units in India in five strategic sectors: oil and natural gas, steel, coal, electricity generation, and banking industries.

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The Political Economy of State-Owned Enterprises; X.Yi-Chong The Shenhua Group - a Giant Made in a Decade; J.Zhao & X.Yi-Chong Coal India Limited - the Last One Standing; X.Yi-Chong China´s Oil Industry: ´Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics´; M.Taylor Old Jewels in New Boxes? India´s Major Public Sector Petroleum and Natural Gas Exploration and Production Enterprises; S.De The State Grid Corporation of China; X.Yi-Chong National Thermal Power Corporation: Power in Public Enterprises; S.Narayan The Baosteel Group: a National Champion Amongst National Champions; J.D.Wilson SAIL: Sailing or Stumbling?; A.Palit A State Enterprise in China´s Capitalist Transformation: the Bank of China; L.Liew State Bank of India: the Opportunities and Challenges of being a State-owned Bank in India; R.Chakrabarti

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Xu Yi-chong is Research Professor of School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Xu is the author of Powering China (2002), Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia (2004), and The Politics of Nuclear Energy in China (2010). With Patrick Weller, Xu co-authored The Governance of World Trade (2004) and Inside the World Bank (2009). Xu also co-edited The Politics of Sovereign Wealth Funds (2010, with Gawdat Bahgat) and edited Nuclear Energy Development in Asia (2011).

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