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  • The State Strikes Back

    The End of Economic Reform in China?

    by Nicholas Lardy ...
    China’s extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, the renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy argues that China’s future growth prospects could be equally bright but are shadowed by the specter of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Markets Over Mao

    The Rise of Private Business in China

    by Nicholas Lardy ...
    China's transition to a market economy has propelled its remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s. In this book, Nicholas R. Lardy, one of the world's foremost experts on the Chinese economy, traces the increasing role of market forces and refutes the widely advanced argument that Chinese economic progress rests on the government's control of the economy's "commanding heights." In another ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chen Yun's Strategy for China's Development

    by Nicholas R. Lardy, Kenneth Lieberthal, Dong Chen ...
    Originally published in 1983. Since Mao Zedongfs death the Chinese have been debating the future character of the country’s political and economic system. The present collection of Chen Yun’s writings must be read against the backdrop of the ongoing policy discussion in the 1980s. Chen has been, and remains, an advocate of economic policies that are central to this debate, and since 1978 many of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Chinese Economic Planning

    Translations From Chi-Hua Ching-Chi

    Edited by Nicholas Lardy ...
    This title was first published in 1978. This volume brings together translations of a series of fundamental articles that are of special value for those who seek to understand ChinaTs system of economic planning. These materials, which were intended to provide a basic introduction to the principles and techniques of economic planning being introduced during the First Five-Year Plan, originally ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

    by John Bryan Starr ...
    "A clearheaded, multidimensional tour of China's political, economic, and social landscapes." — Current History"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations. . . . An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." — The New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a decade, John Bryan Starr's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Chinese Economy, second edition

    Adaptation and Growth

    by Barry J. Naughton ...
    The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both a broadly focused ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Dragon's Gift:The Real Story of China in Africa

    The Real Story of China in Africa

    by Deborah Brautigam ...
    Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The China Crisis

    How China's Economic Collapse Will Lead to a Global Depression

    by James R. Gorrie ...
    A controversial look at the impending Chinese economic collapse—the history behind it, its contemporary causes, and its dire implications for the global economyAll the experts agree: the 21st century belongs to China. Given America's looming insolvency and the possibility of the collapse of the U.S. dollar, who can doubt that China is poised to take over the role of economic superpower? Written by ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

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  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Read more

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  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

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  • China's Past, China's Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the ... Read more

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  • Rural Transition in Azerbaijan

    by Zvi Lerman, David Sedik ...
    Series series Rural Economies in Transition
    In 1995–96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD