The Industrialization of Rural ChinaOUP Oxford, 2006 M12 21 - 448 páginas The growth of rural industry in China since 1978 has been explosive. Much of the existing literature explains its growth in terms of changes in economic policy. By means of a combination of privatization, liberalization and fiscal decentralization, it is argued, rural industrialization has taken off. This book takes issue with such claims. Using a newly constructed dataset covering all of China's 2000 plus counties and complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong and Jiangsu, the author demonstrates that history mattered. More precisely, it is argued that the development of rural industry in the Maoist period set in motion a process of learning-by-doing whereby China's rural workforce gradually acquired an array of skills and competencies. As a result, rural industrialization was accelerating well before the 1978 climacteric. The growth of the 1980s and 1990s is therefore likely to be a continuation of this process. Without prior Maoist development of skills, the growth of the post-1978 era would have been much slower, and perhaps would not have occurred at all - as has been the case in countries such as India and Vietnam. This is not to say that the Maoist legacy was without flaw. Many of the rural industries created under Mao were geared towards meeting defence-related objectives resulting in inefficiencies, and there can be no question that post-1978 policy changes facilitated the growth process. But without the Maoist inheritance, rural industrialization across China would have been unsuccessful. |
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... Maoist era are not hard to fathom. Those who seek to identify the achievements of Maoism are typically dismissed as being little better than Holocaust deniers, and therefore one stands in harm's way in seeking to understand, let alone ...
... Maoist era are not hard to fathom. Those who seek to identify the achievements of Maoism are typically dismissed as being little better than Holocaust deniers, and therefore one stands in harm's way in seeking to understand, let alone ...
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... Maoist past have been content with the assertion that history mattered. The link between the legacies of Maoism and the rural industrialization of the 1980s and 1990s is sometimes suggested, as it is in the writings of Putterman (1997) ...
... Maoist past have been content with the assertion that history mattered. The link between the legacies of Maoism and the rural industrialization of the 1980s and 1990s is sometimes suggested, as it is in the writings of Putterman (1997) ...
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... Maoist regime was able relatively easily to rectify China's 'object gap' by creating an array of new factories and industrial enterprises. But the skills deficit was not so easily addressed. Precisely because learning-by-doing was so ...
... Maoist regime was able relatively easily to rectify China's 'object gap' by creating an array of new factories and industrial enterprises. But the skills deficit was not so easily addressed. Precisely because learning-by-doing was so ...
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... Maoist era was much greater than usually thought. And with this extensive rural industrialization went hand-in-hand an equally extensive process of industrial skill acquisition. In other words, manufacturing capability had developed ...
... Maoist era was much greater than usually thought. And with this extensive rural industrialization went hand-in-hand an equally extensive process of industrial skill acquisition. In other words, manufacturing capability had developed ...
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... Maoist era. Many of the skills, he argues, were passed on from generation to generation, allowing (say) the electronics industry of the postMao era to tap into a range of competencies and talents. If Fei's conjectures are correct, we ...
... Maoist era. Many of the skills, he argues, were passed on from generation to generation, allowing (say) the electronics industry of the postMao era to tap into a range of competencies and talents. If Fei's conjectures are correct, we ...
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3 Rural Industrialization After 1978 | 48 |
4 The Role of Policy Change | 72 |
5 The Learning Hypothesis | 117 |
6 Learning to Industrialize in the Maoist Era | 141 |
7 The National Evidence | 168 |
8 Jiangsu | 207 |
9 Sichuan | 244 |
10 Guangdong | 285 |
11 Conclusion | 322 |
Appendices | 337 |
Bibliography | 356 |
Index | 389 |
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The Industrialization of Rural China Chris Bramall,Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies Chris Bramall Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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