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Title The Oxford companion to the economics of China / edited by Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 622 pages)
Contents Overview: The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges ; PART 1: THE CHINA MODEL ; 1. From a Manipulated Revolution to Manipulated Marketisation: A Logic of the Chinese Model ; 2. Transition to a Market Economy: Explaining the Successes and Failures ; 3. Chinese Residents' Rising Income Growth and Distribution Inequality ; 4. The Influence of Foreign Economists in the Early Stages of China's Reforms ; 5. China and India: The Pattern of Recent Growth and Governance in a Comparative Political Economy Perspective ; PART 2: FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR CHINA ; 6. Will China Continue to Prosper? ; 7. China: Prospects for Future Growth ; 8. China's Future Performance and Development Challenges ; 9. Rebalancing China's Growth ; 10. China's Middle Income Transition and Evolving Inclusive Growth Strategy ; 11. China's Consumer Revolution ; 12. Future Strategy for Growth and Inclusion ; PART 3: CHINA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY ; 13. The Global Impact of China's Growth ; 14. Effects of China's Trade on Other Countries ; 15. The Internationalisation of the Renminbi ; 16. Antidumping and Other Trade Disputes ; 17. US-China Economic Relations ; 18. China and the WTO ; 19. China's Aid Policy ; PART 4: TRADE AND THE CHINESE ECONOMY ; 20. The Chinese Exchange Rate and Global Imbalances ; 21. Using Tax Based Instruments for Innovative China's Trade Rebalancing ; 22. China's Evolving Trade Composition ; 23. Trade Policy Reform and Trade Volume ; 24. Trade and Industrial Policy: China in the 1990s to Today ; PART 5: MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCE ; 25. China: International Macro-economic Impact of Domestic Change ; 26. Chinese Tax Structure ; 27. Government Expenditures ; 28. China's High Saving Puzzle ; 29. Monetary Policy in China ; 30. China's Inflation in the Post-Reform Period ; 31. Local Government Debts ; 32. China is Headed for a Financial Crisis and a Sharp Slowdown ; 33. How Can China's Financial System Help Transform its Economy? ; PART 6: URBANIZATION ; 34. Urbanization in China ; 35. Urban Wages in China ; 36. Local Investment Climates and Competition among Cities ; 37. The Value of Land and Housing in China's Residential Market ; 38. The Urban Pension System ; PART 7: INDUSTRY AND MARKETS ; 39. Development Strategy and Industrialization ; 40. Industrial Upgrading and Productivity Growth in China ; 41. Making Clusters Innovative? A Chinese Observation ; 42. Markets and Institutional Change in China ; 43. Economic Institutions and their Impacts on Firm Strategies and Performance ; 44. Insurance Markets in China ; 45. The Future of Private and State-owned Enterprises in China ; 46. Political Economy of Privatization in China ; PART 8: AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ; 47. Food Security and Agriculture in China ; 48. Food Security in China: Historic and Future Perspectives: How does China feed its People? ; 49. Farm Size and Long-Term Prospects for Chinese Agriculture ; 50. Agriculture R & D and Extension ; 51. Rural Credit in China ; 52. Farmer Cooperatives in China: Development and Diversification ; 53. Village Governance in China ; 54. Local Governance and Rural Public Good Provision ; PART 9: LAND, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND ENVIRONMENT ; 55. Land and Development in China ; 56. Infrastructure in China ; 57. Doing Good While Doing Well: China's Search for Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth ; 58. Sustainable Water Resources Management in China: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Policy Reforms ; 59. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Ambient Water Quality Improvement in China ; 60. Climate Change ; PART 10: POPULATION AND LABOR ; 61. What Challenges is Demographic Transition Bringing to China's Growth? ; 62. Rural-Urban Migration in China ; 63. The Lewis Turning Point: Is There a Labor Shortage in China? ; 64. Labor and Employment in China ; PART 11: DIMENSIONS OF WELLBEING AND INEQUALITY ; 65. China's Well-Being Since 1990 ; 66. Relative Deprivation in China ; 67. Poverty ; 68. Inequality and the Reform Era in China ; 69. Inequality in China ; 70. Overcoming the Middle-income Trap in China: From the Perspective of Social Mobility ; 71. Trends in Food Consumption and Nutrition in China ; 72. The Great Chinese Famine ; 73. An Emerging New Form of Social Protection in 21st Century China ; PART 12: HEALTH AND EDUCATION ; 74. Economics of Health Transitions in China ; 75. The Changing Landscape of Rural Health Services in China ; 76. Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China ; 77. Human Capital: Schooling ; 78. Commanding Heights: The State and Higher Education in China ; 79. Economics and Business Education in China ; PART 13: GENDER EQUITY ; 80. Gender and China's Development ; 81. High Sex Ratio in China: Causes and Consequences ; 82. Gender and Family ; 83. Women and Agricultural Labor in China ; PART 14: REGIONAL DIVERGENCE IN CHINA ; 84. Regional Divergence ; 85. China's Political-Economic Institution: Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism (RDA) ; 86. China's Regional Development Strategy ; PART 15: CHINA'S PROVINCES: SELECTED PERSPECTIVES ; 87. Anhui: Economic and Social Development ; 88. Guangdong: Maintaining Leadership in China's Next Round of Reforms ; 89. Guangxi: Rapid Development ; 90. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: Strategies and Considerations of Development ; 91. Jiangsu: Pattern Change and Structural Adjustment ; 92. Ningxia: Poverty Alleviation and Development ; 93. Shandong: Scientific Development and New Prospects ; 94. Shenzhen: From Labor-Intensive to Innovation-driven Economic Growth ; 95. Sichuan: A West-China Province with Fast Development and Change ; 96. Tianjin: The Third Growth Pole of China ; 97. Western Regions: Ideas of Cultural Industry Development ; 98. Zhejiang: Economic Development
Summary This work provides a wide range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of the Chinese economy. The topics covered include: the China model, future prospects for China; China and the global economy; trade and the Chinese economy; macro-economics and finance; urbanization; industry and markets; agriculture and rural development; land, infrastructure and environment; population and Labour; dimensions of well-being and inequality; health, education, and gender equity; regional divergence in China; and a brief look at a selection of China's provinces
Analysis economie
economics
china
Economics (General)
Economie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Economics -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Economics.
Wirtschaft
Wirtschaftswachstum
Wirtschaftspolitik
Wirtschaftssystem
Entwicklung.
Wirtschaftswachstum.
Internationale Wirtschaft.
Wirtschaftsgeschichte.
China.
SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024011
China -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024018
Subject China.
China
Form Electronic book
Author Fan, Shenggen
Kanbur, S. M. Ravi, 1954-
Wei, Shang-Jin
Zhang, Xiaobo, 1966-
ISBN 9780191788635
0191788635
0199678200
9780199678204
9780191030222
0191030228