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Your Dec. 4 editorial claims that if the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, Gov. George E. Pataki and the State Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, halt the stadium, this will be the start of reforming New York State's deeply dysfunctional government.
Our solution to this puzzle emphasizes China's thick compared to Russia's thin international integration, stemming from the interaction of epistemic communities, economic interests, and state agents since the start of reform efforts.
"If there was any one single completely terrible political decision made by Democrats during this health care debate, it was to 'save money' by delaying the start of reform," he writes.
Policy documents relating to the reform of primary healthcare institutions and dating from the start of reform in August 2009 were collected from the medical reforms website and Anhui's health bureau website.
As Mr. Krishna explained to me via e-mail: "The bottom line conclusion … is that while inequality appears to have gone up in the initial years following the start of the reforms (1994-2000), it has fallen again (between 2000-2005) to nearly the pre-reform levels".
Could China have grown so rapidly if it had continued to have the same overall equality of income as it had at the start of its reforms in 1979?
"In Indonesia, democracy is identical to money politics," said Ade Komarudin, a high-ranking Golkar official who has been a lawmaker since 1997, one year before the start of the reforms.
The minister of justice and security, Gustavo Beliz, said the firing of 10 of 12 senior police commissioners was just the start of basic reforms in the 32,000-member force, the largest in Argentina.
