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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... rapid and efficient, and I thank all of them. I should also like to thank two anonymous referees for their invaluable comments. My colleagues at the School of East Asian Studies at Sheffield University have contributed immeasurably by ...
... rapid and efficient, and I thank all of them. I should also like to thank two anonymous referees for their invaluable comments. My colleagues at the School of East Asian Studies at Sheffield University have contributed immeasurably by ...
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... rapid growth of rural industry in Sunan a consequence of its Maoist and Republican legacies, or was it driven by nothing more than favourable geographical factors such as high yield agriculture and proximity to Shanghai? Proxies for ...
... rapid growth of rural industry in Sunan a consequence of its Maoist and Republican legacies, or was it driven by nothing more than favourable geographical factors such as high yield agriculture and proximity to Shanghai? Proxies for ...
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... rapid industrialization occurred in Panxian, where GVIO rose by a factor of 19 between 1965 and 1978, mainly because of an increase in coal production from 80,000 to 2.6 million tonnes (GZSQ 1986: 230, 822–3). Some idea of the overall ...
... rapid industrialization occurred in Panxian, where GVIO rose by a factor of 19 between 1965 and 1978, mainly because of an increase in coal production from 80,000 to 2.6 million tonnes (GZSQ 1986: 230, 822–3). Some idea of the overall ...
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... rapid growth reflected the development of commune and brigade industry at a pace which was unusual by Chinese standards; as will be seen, the Third Front was by no means a necessary condition for rapid rural industrialization. Of course ...
... rapid growth reflected the development of commune and brigade industry at a pace which was unusual by Chinese standards; as will be seen, the Third Front was by no means a necessary condition for rapid rural industrialization. Of course ...
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... rapid CBE growth began very late in some of China's provinces. To see this, we can compare the year in which ... rapidly in the 1960s, but this was very much the exception. For the whole sample, the median growth rate was at its slowest ...
... rapid CBE growth began very late in some of China's provinces. To see this, we can compare the year in which ... rapidly in the 1960s, but this was very much the exception. For the whole sample, the median growth rate was at its slowest ...
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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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