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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Chris Bramall. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations viii.
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... Sources 337 2. Estimation of Industrial GVA in Sichuan 340 3. County GVIO and NVIO in Guangdong 342 4. The Definition of Rural Industry 344 Bibliography Index 356 389 List of Figures 208 8.1 The municipalities of Jiangsu in vii Contents.
... Sources 337 2. Estimation of Industrial GVA in Sichuan 340 3. County GVIO and NVIO in Guangdong 342 4. The Definition of Rural Industry 344 Bibliography Index 356 389 List of Figures 208 8.1 The municipalities of Jiangsu in vii Contents.
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... List of Figures 208 8.1 The municipalities of Jiangsu in the late 1980s 9.1 The prefectures of Sichuan in the late 1980s 10.1 The prefectures of Guangdong, early 1980s 245 288 List of Tables 17 23 26 27 28 32 35 viii List of Figures.
... List of Figures 208 8.1 The municipalities of Jiangsu in the late 1980s 9.1 The prefectures of Sichuan in the late 1980s 10.1 The prefectures of Guangdong, early 1980s 245 288 List of Tables 17 23 26 27 28 32 35 viii List of Figures.
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... figure rose to 290 yuan, and by 1978 it had reached 851 yuan(Panzhihua tongjiju 2001: 58). The population data tell the same story of expansion; between the Population Censuses of 1964 and 1982, the municipality's population rose from ...
... figure rose to 290 yuan, and by 1978 it had reached 851 yuan(Panzhihua tongjiju 2001: 58). The population data tell the same story of expansion; between the Population Censuses of 1964 and 1982, the municipality's population rose from ...
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... figure than for most provincial capital; Nanjing, for example, contributed only 15 percent of Jiangsu's industrial production (World Bank 1988: 213). But rural industrialization also featured prominently in Gansu, beginning in the early ...
... figure than for most provincial capital; Nanjing, for example, contributed only 15 percent of Jiangsu's industrial production (World Bank 1988: 213). But rural industrialization also featured prominently in Gansu, beginning in the early ...
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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