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China's Great Economic Transformation


Author(s):
Loren BRANDT Thomas G. RAWSKI
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication:
6/2008
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9780521712903
Pages:
930
Sizes:
228 x 152mm
Weight:
1.2800
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This landmark study provides an integrated analysis of China's unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. The authors combine deep China expertise with broad disciplinary knowledge to explain China's remarkable combination of high-speed growth and deeply flawed institutions. Their work exposes the mechanisms underpinning the origin and expansion of China's great boom. Penetrating studies track the rise of Chinese capabilities in manufacturing and in research and development. The editors probe both achievements and weaknesses across many sectors, including China's fiscal, legal, and financial institutions. The book shows how an intricate minuet combining China's political system with sectorial development, globalization, resource transfers across geographic and economic space, and partial system reform delivered an astonishing and unprecedented growth spurt. A detailed account of China's huge economic boom Combines the expertise of China specialists and economic generalists Draws on deep knowledge of China, whilst focusing on broad issues of development
1. China's great economic transformation Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski 2. China and development economics Alan Heston and Terry Sicular 3. China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies Jan Svejnar 4. A political economy of China's economic transition Barry Naughton 5. The demographic factor in China's transition Wang Feng and Andrew Mason 6. The Chinese labor market in the reform era Fang Cai, Albert Park and Yaohui Zhao 7. Education in the reform era Emily Hannum, Jere Behrman, Meiyan Wang and Jihong Liu 8. Environmental resources and economic growth James Roumasset, Hua Wang and Kimberly Burnett 9. Science and technology in China Albert G. Z. Hu and Gary H. Jefferson 10. The political economy of private sector development in China Stephan Haggard and Yasheng Huang 11. The role of law in China's economic development Donald Clarke, Peter Murrell and Susan Whiting 12. China's fiscal system: a work in progress Christine P. W. Wong and Richard M. Bird 13. Agriculture in China's development: past disappointments, recent successes and future challenges Jikun Huang, Keijiro Otsuka and Scott Rozelle 14. China's financial system: past, present, and future Franklin Allen, Jun Qian and Meijun Qian 15. China's industrial development Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski and John Sutton 16. China's embrace of globalization Lee Branstetter and Nicholas Lardy 17. Growth and structural transformation in China Loren Brandt, Chang-tai Hsieh and Xiaodong Zhu 18. Income inequality during China's economic transition Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John Giles and Sangui Wang 19. Spatial dimensions of Chinese economic development Kam Wing Chan, Vernon Henderson and Kai Yuen Tsui 20. Forecasting China's economic growth over the next two decades Dwight H. Perkins and Thomas G. Rawski.
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto Loren Brandt is Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, where he has been since 1987. Previously, he was at the Hoover Institution. Professor Brandt has published widely on China in leading economic journals, and been involved in extensive household and enterprise survey work in China. He is the author of Commercialization and Agricultural Development: Central and Eastern China, 1870–1937, and was an area editor for the five-volume Oxford Dictionary of Economic History. Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh Thomas G. Rawski is Professor of Economics and History and UCIS Research Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. His work covers many dimensions of China's development and modern economic history and includes Economic Growth and Employment in China, China's Transition to Industrialism, Economic Growth in Prewar China, Chinese History in Economic Perspective, Economics and the Historian, and China's Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia.