How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap offers the most complete synthesis to date of the numerous interacting forces that have shaped China's dramatic makeover and the problems it faces...

China's transformation cannot be attributed to a single cause; rather, it arose from a contingent, interactive process—Ang calls it 'directed improvisation' She formalizes this insight which has the potential to influence future studies of institutional and economic change beyond China.

* Foreign Affairs *

While adaptive approaches to development have become new buzzwords, Yuen Yuen's work brings rigor to this conversation.... This analytical lens has enormous potential for thinking through the adaptive challenge, whether at the national level, subnational level or sectoral level.

* The World Bank *

The book combines methodological rigour, employing a complexity perspective hitherto unknown in standard political economy analyses... with rich original empirical data drawn from more than 400 interviews.... This is an important book with a bold thesis that, at its most ambitious, demands a rethinking of the history and evolution of capitalism.... In terms of policy implications, Ang's thesis has the potential to upend much that the global development establishment holds dear.

* The Straits Times *

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap... is an original and insightful take on what is perhaps the biggest development puzzle of my lifetime.

* Building State Capability Blog *

This book is a triumph, opening a window onto the political economy of China’s astonishing rise that takes as its starting point systems and complexity. Its lessons apply far beyond China’s borders.

* Oxfam Blog *

Ang provides specialists and nonspecialists alike with a fresh inside-the-black-box account of how the Chinese state... has actually practiced (not merely preached) innovation, problem solving, and effective implementation.... Future studies of bureaucratic life in China and elsewhere must reckon seriously with Ang's account.

* Governance *

As if explaining modern Chinese economic development was not enough of a challenge, Ang has two even loftier goals. The first is methodological. She expresses a frustration with political science's causality obsession and modeling approaches that deliver isolated snapshots of complex processes.... Ang's second ambition is to apply this coevolutionary schema to how we understand economic development generally.

* Perspectives on Politics *

This book is an invaluable addition to the scholarship on the political economy of development.

* Pacific Affairs *

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap is an innovative account to explain why China has economically developed in spite – or because – of its low-quality institutions. It is both a theoretically original and empirically rich study of Chinese economic development and required reading for those who want to understand China's and our own future.

* VoegelinView *

The author has certainly filled the gaps in the literature on the political-economic analysis of China's historic transformation from a low-income to a middle-income country through adoption of a co-evolutionary approach to development. Overall, this interesting book goes deeper beneath the broad political-economic surface of Chinese society. It should appeal not only to researchers on Chinese society, but also to practising political economists.

* Ecoomic Record *

Yuen Yuen Ang is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholar, awarded by the American Political Science Association.

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ISBN 13	9781501700200
ISBN 10	1501700200
Title	How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
Author	Yuen Yuen Ang
Series	Cornell Studies In Political Economy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2016-09-06
Number of pages	344
Prizes	Winner of Peter Katzenstein Book Prize 2017 (United States), Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2017 (United States), Winner of Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book 2018 (United States), Winner of Foreign Affairs "Best Book" 2017 (United States)
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