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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501705854
035 _a(DE-B1597)496441
035 _a(OCoLC)956738064
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAng, Yuen Yuen
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap /
_cYuen Yuen Ang.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (344 p.) :
_b11 halftones, 1 map, 15 tables, 24 charts
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aCornell Studies in Political Economy
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures and Tables --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: HOW DID DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPEN? --
_tPart 1. FRAMEWORK AND BUILDING BLOCKS --
_t1 MAPPING COEVOLUTION --
_t2 DIRECTED IMPROVISATION --
_tPart 2. DIRECTION --
_t3 BALANCING VARIETY AND UNIFORMITY --
_t4 FRANCHISING THE BUREAUCRACY --
_tPart 3. IMPROVISATION --
_t5 FROM BUILDING TO PRESERVING MARKETS --
_t6 CONNECTING FIRST MOVERS AND LAGGARDS --
_tConclusion: HOW DEVELOPMENT ACTUALLY HAPPENED BEYOND CHINA --
_tAppendix A: STEPS FOR MAPPING COEVOLUTION --
_tAppendix B: INTERVIEWS --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _a‹p›‹b›WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY‹/b›"‹i›‹b›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/b›‹/i› truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."- Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee‹/p›‹p›Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.‹/p›‹p›How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."‹/p›‹p›Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.‹/p›‹p›Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials.‹/p›‹p›Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.‹/p›‹p›Bold and meticulously researched, ‹b›‹i›How China Escaped the Poverty Trap‹/i› ‹/b›opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.‹/p›
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEconomic development
_zChina.
650 0 _aEconomic development
_zDeveloping countries.
650 0 _aPoverty
_zChina.
650 0 _aPoverty
_zDeveloping countries.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aGeneral Economics.
650 4 _aPolitical Science & Political History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / China.
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653 _aeconomic conditions in china, history of chinese economy, chinese economic policy, economic development in china.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705854
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