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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... central argument is supplemented by a geographical explanation of the spatial disparities that have subsequently emerged. More precisely, it is claimed that physical geography has prevented much of western China from fully exploiting ...
... central argument is supplemented by a geographical explanation of the spatial disparities that have subsequently emerged. More precisely, it is claimed that physical geography has prevented much of western China from fully exploiting ...
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... central chapter of this book (Chapter 7) thus builds on the broader definition of the rural industrial sector by constructing and employing a dataset for each of China's 2,000 plus counties. We have data on total rural industrial ...
... central chapter of this book (Chapter 7) thus builds on the broader definition of the rural industrial sector by constructing and employing a dataset for each of China's 2,000 plus counties. We have data on total rural industrial ...
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... Central Committee in September 1962, which passed a resolution on the 'Regulations on the Work of the Rural People's Communes' (widely known as the Sixty Articles) was crucial. Article 13 explicitly limited rural industrial development ...
... Central Committee in September 1962, which passed a resolution on the 'Regulations on the Work of the Rural People's Communes' (widely known as the Sixty Articles) was crucial. Article 13 explicitly limited rural industrial development ...
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... central government should handle only important matters). The aircraft factories still have not been relocated. In time of war, even rifles cannot be supplied. Every province must have a small iron and steel plant. There are several ...
... central government should handle only important matters). The aircraft factories still have not been relocated. In time of war, even rifles cannot be supplied. Every province must have a small iron and steel plant. There are several ...
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... central municipalities, the output indicator, and upon the measure of dispersion used. Nevertheless, the overall trends are clear enough. Shanghai, for example, lost ground; its share in national GVIO fell from 18 percent in 1965 to 13 ...
... central municipalities, the output indicator, and upon the measure of dispersion used. Nevertheless, the overall trends are clear enough. Shanghai, for example, lost ground; its share in national GVIO fell from 18 percent in 1965 to 13 ...
Contenido
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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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