China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Oxford University Press, 2016 - Počet stran: 319
China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.

China's growth has lifted 700 million people out of poverty. It has also created a monumental environmental mess, with smog-blanketed cities and carbon emissions that are a leading cause of climate change. Multinational companies make billions of dollars in profits in China each year, but traders around the world shudder at every gyration of the country's unruly stock markets. Most surprising of all, its capitalist economy is governed by an authoritarian Communist Party that shows no sign of loosening its grip.

How did China grow so fast for so long? Can it keep growing and still solve its problems of environmental damage, fast-rising debt and rampant corruption? How long can its vibrant economy co-exist with the repressive one-party state? What do China's changes mean for the rest of the world? China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) answers these questions in straightforward language that you don't need to be an economist to understand, but with a wealth of detail drawn from academic research, interviews with dozens of company executives and policy makers, and a quarter-century of personal experience. Whether you're doing business in China, negotiating with its government officials, or a student trying to navigate the complexities of this fascinating and diverse country, this is the one book that will tell you everything you need to know about how China works, where it came from and where it's going.

 

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 Chinas Political Economy
1
2 Agriculture Land and the Rural Economy
27
3 Industry and the Rise of the Export Economy
43
4 Urbanization and Infrastructure
67
5 The Enterprise System
89
6 The Fiscal System and CentralLocal Government Relations
111
7 The Financial System
128
8 Energy and the Environment
149
10 The Emerging Consumer Economy
180
 Inequality and Corruption
196
12 Changing the Growth Model
210
 China and the World
233
 Are Chinas Economic Statistics Reliable?
263
For Further Reading
267
Notes
273
Index
303

9 Demographics and the Labor Market
163

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O autorovi (2016)

Arthur R. Kroeber is Nonresident Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy at Brookings-Tsinghua Center. Kroeber focuses on China's political economy and its engagement with global economic institutions. He is managing director of GaveKal Dragonomics, an independent global economic research firm, and editor of its journal China Economic Quarterly. He is based in Beijing, where he has lived since 2002. Before joining Dragonomics, Kroeber worked for 15 years as a financial journalist and economic analyst in China, Taiwan and India. He has written for Foreign Policy, Economist, Far Eastern Economic Review, Fortune, and Wired and is a contributor to the opinion pages of Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the Fernand Braudel Institute of International Economics and the board of the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business at Indiana University.

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