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,...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-388) and index
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Rural Industrialization in the Maoist Era; 3. Rural Industrialization After 1978; 4. The Role of Policy Change; 5. The Learning Hypothesis; 6. Learning to Industrialize in the Maoist Era; 7. The National Evidence; 8. Jiangsu; 9. Sichuan; 10. Guangdong; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
