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Yuen Yuen Ang - How China Escaped the Poverty Trap - 9781501700200 - V9781501700200
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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

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Description for How China Escaped the Poverty Trap Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 344 pages, 27, 11 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 15 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 642.
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 explains this astonishing metamorphosis. Rather than insist that either strong institutions of good governance foster markets or that growth enables good governance, Ang lays out a new, dynamic framework for understanding development broadly. Successful development, she contends, is a coevolutionary process in which markets and governments mutually adapt. By mapping this coevolution, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700200
SKU
V9781501700200
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-48

About Yuen Yuen Ang
Yuen Yuen Ang is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is a winner of the 2014 GDN Next Horizons Essay Contest on The Future of Development Assistance, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Reviews for How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
In this major new contribution, Yuen Yuen Ang offers a fresh synthetic explanation for the stunning economic transformation of China in recent decades. She shows how China experienced sustained rapid economic development by transforming weak institutions in ways that strengthened states and markets simultaneously. This book points toward a potential model of growth for other countries and is a must-read ... Read more

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