How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

Contributor(s): Ang, Yuen Yuen (Author)

ISBN: 9781501764561

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: March 15, 2022

Dewey: 338.951

Lexile Code: 0000

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Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.77" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.12 lbs) 344 pages

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Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy

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Description:

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap offers the most complete synthesis to date of the numerous interacting forces that have shaped China's dramatic makeover and the problems it faces today.

--Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of Kicking Away the Ladder and Economics "The World Bank"

Brief description: Yuen Yuen Ang is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is a winner of the 2014 GDN Next Horizons Essay Contest on "The Future of Development Assistance," sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Review Quotes:

China's transformation cannot be attributed to a single cause; rather, it arose from a contingent, interactive process--Ang calls it 'directed improvisation.' She formalizes this insight which has the potential to influence future studies of institutional and economic change beyond China.

-- "Foreign Affairs"

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