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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... percent in 1965 to an unbelievable 71 percent in 1971 (GT 1984: 179, 183–4), at a time when the national share was only 57 percent (TJJ 1990b: 10). In some ways, however, the most dramatic part of the Third Front programme centred on ...
... percent in 1965 to an unbelievable 71 percent in 1971 (GT 1984: 179, 183–4), at a time when the national share was only 57 percent (TJJ 1990b: 10). In some ways, however, the most dramatic part of the Third Front programme centred on ...
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... percent in 1965 to 13 percent in 1978. Yet the poor western provinces gained little. Sichuan's share rose by only 0.6 percentage points (to 5.3 percent in 1978) and Gansu's share rose by 0.5 percent between 1965 and 1978. The biggest ...
... percent in 1965 to 13 percent in 1978. Yet the poor western provinces gained little. Sichuan's share rose by only 0.6 percentage points (to 5.3 percent in 1978) and Gansu's share rose by 0.5 percent between 1965 and 1978. The biggest ...
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... (percent per annum; 1980 prices) 1962–71 1971–78 Province: Fujian Guangdong Hebei Henan Hubei Hunan Jiangsu Jiangxi ... percent in total between 1961 and 1970 (and 2 percent between 1970 and 1978) so the data in this table understate ...
... (percent per annum; 1980 prices) 1962–71 1971–78 Province: Fujian Guangdong Hebei Henan Hubei Hunan Jiangsu Jiangxi ... percent in total between 1961 and 1970 (and 2 percent between 1970 and 1978) so the data in this table understate ...
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... percent of industrial output in 1978 and combined commune and brigade output for no less than 83 percent (SCZL 1990: 475). Jinniu was probably unusual, but there is clear evidence elsewhere of commune and brigade production in urban ...
... percent of industrial output in 1978 and combined commune and brigade output for no less than 83 percent (SCZL 1990: 475). Jinniu was probably unusual, but there is clear evidence elsewhere of commune and brigade production in urban ...
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... percent between 1952 and 1957. This is well below the 74 percent increase between 1952 and 1957 generated by the TJJ (1990a) data. To be sure, the counties benefited from the development of modern industry and therefore the handicraft ...
... percent between 1952 and 1957. This is well below the 74 percent increase between 1952 and 1957 generated by the TJJ (1990a) data. To be sure, the counties benefited from the development of modern industry and therefore the handicraft ...
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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