Dr. Guthrie has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous books, articles, and reports on Chinese economic reform, leadership, and corporate social responsibility, including Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China(Princeton University Press) and China and Globalization: The Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of China.

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Hidden behind the troubling headlines, however, is another, more hopeful Mexico one undergoing rapid and widespread social, political, and economic transformation.

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Over the past few decades, Bangladesh and various NGOs have instituted several educational programmes such as universal (compulsory and free) primary education and the establishment of village libraries and village study circles in an effort to provide its citizens with access to quality education and thus to promote national economic development, poverty alleviation and social empowerment and transformation.

UNESCO: Ganokendra Model of Community Learning Centres

Since that forlorn cry, China has undergone a dramatic social and economic transformation.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

It's a privilege for India to find you and your administration as deeply invested in ensuring that India makes a success of its historic journey to have the social and economic transformation carried out in the framework of an open society, a democratic polity, committed to the rule of law, and respect for full human freedoms.

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And I look forward to have the privilege of welcoming you and your family to our country so that you can see for yourselves what we are trying to do, the difficulties of managing social and economic transformation in the framework of a democracy committed to the rule of law, committed to all fundamental human freedoms.

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