How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) by Yuen Yuen Ang

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

Yuen Yuen Ang

344 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
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Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world's second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. In How C...

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