Broadman recalls working with the Chinese leadership on restructuring state-owned enterprises and corporate governance reform in the early 1990s while he was at the World Bank.

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In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot.

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Radical reform of social security is the next great liberal reform, easily as significant a change as the privatisation of state-owned enterprises also dismissed in its time as Utopian.

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