How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Record no. 98872)

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International Standard Book Number 9781501764561
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Personal name Ang Yuen Yuen
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Title How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Cornell Univ Pr
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2022
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
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Summary, etc WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE<br/>"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS<br/>WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY<br/><br/>"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences."<br/>? Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee<br/><br/>Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trapadvances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise.<br/><br/>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."<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trapopens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.<br/><br/>Source: https://www.amazon.in/dp/150176456X?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
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