How China Escaped the Poverty Trap /

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap / / Yuen Yuen Ang.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Ang, Yuen Yuen,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 halftones, 1 map, 15 tables, 24 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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