Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 148 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 148 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: What Everyone Needs to Know
ISBN: 978-0-19-023902-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
In China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know, Arthur Kroeber offers an overview of the highlights of China's development since economic reforms were initiated under Deng Xiaoping in 1979. He argues that manufacturing, agricultural change, and construction reoriented the economy in the 1980s and 1990s through state-owned enterprises, private entrepreneurship, and foreign investment. Those shifts unleashed perhaps the largest migration ever in world history from rural areas to urban
centers, accompanied by a no less unprecedented expansion of infrastructure. Changes in the country's fiscal and financial systems vastly increased China's monetary holdings from the 1990s onwards, leading to the country's strategic holding of more U.S. debt than any other nation. Kroeber also examines
economic growth as it has been experienced by Chinese workers and consumers, including the mounting problems of income and wealth inequality, corruption, and environmental degradation. Kroeber ultimately turns to the consequences of Chinese economic growth: its decisive impact on the world economy, its visible and challenging resource extraction from Africa and Latin America, and its increasing engagement with global economic institutions.