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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... course the reasons which lie behind this tendency to dismiss the legacies of the 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 ...
... course the reasons which lie behind this tendency to dismiss the legacies of the 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 ...
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... course we need to consider whether observed differences in rural growth rates reflect factors other than legacies, such as physical geography. Was, for example, the rapid growth of rural industry in Sunan a consequence of its Maoist and ...
... course we need to consider whether observed differences in rural growth rates reflect factors other than legacies, such as physical geography. Was, for example, the rapid growth of rural industry in Sunan a consequence of its Maoist and ...
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... course failed, but its flaws were widely seen as being those of execution rather than conception. With better planning and less haste in the development of rural industry, there was every reason to expect the underlying strategy to ...
... course failed, but its flaws were widely seen as being those of execution rather than conception. With better planning and less haste in the development of rural industry, there was every reason to expect the underlying strategy to ...
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... course most Front areas began their industrialization from a low base level of per capita output and that helped to ensure that the rate of industrial growth was rapid. But that was the point; the very purpose of the Third Front was to ...
... course most Front areas began their industrialization from a low base level of per capita output and that helped to ensure that the rate of industrial growth was rapid. But that was the point; the very purpose of the Third Front was to ...
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... course. For one thing, production in many county-level enterprises was disrupted by worker involvement in the Cultural Revolution. For another thing, there was a continuing tension throughout the era between the desire to promote rural ...
... course. For one thing, production in many county-level enterprises was disrupted by worker involvement in the Cultural Revolution. For another thing, there was a continuing tension throughout the era between the desire to promote rural ...
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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