How China escaped the poverty trap

How China escaped the poverty trap

Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world's second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. In How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Yuen Yuen Ang exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ang, Yuen Yuen, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press 2016.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cornell studies in political economy.
Materias:
Economic development > China.
Economic development > Developing countries.
Poverty > China.
Poverty > Developing countries.
China > Economic conditions > 1976-2000.
China > Economic conditions > 2000-
China > Economic policy > 1976-2000.
China > Economic policy > 2000-
Developing countries > Social policy.
Developing countries > Economic policy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: HOW DID DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPEN?
  • Part 1. FRAMEWORK AND BUILDING BLOCKS
  • 1 MAPPING COEVOLUTION
  • 2 DIRECTED IMPROVISATION
  • Part 2. DIRECTION
  • 3 BALANCING VARIETY AND UNIFORMITY
  • 4 FRANCHISING THE BUREAUCRACY
  • Part 3. IMPROVISATION
  • 5 FROM BUILDING TO PRESERVING MARKETS
  • 6 CONNECTING FIRST MOVERS AND LAGGARDS
  • Conclusion: HOW DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED BEYOND CHINA
  • Appendix A: STEPS FOR MAPPING COEVOLUTION
  • Appendix B: INTERVIEWS
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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