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China, India and the End of Development Models

China, India and the End of Development Models, edited by Xiaoming Huang, Alex C. Tan and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Palgrave 2011. ISBN9780230301580.
China, India and the End of Development Models Edited by Xiaoming Huang, Alexander C. Tan and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

This book asks the question whether the impressive economic growth and development of China and India constitute a unique model of modern economic development, in light of new models associated with the rise and flourishing of the modern economy in Europe, North America, and East Asia. They place China and India in the context of the global rise and expansion of the modern economy and bring together competing models and frameworks on these two similar, yet contrasting, development experiences. The book argues that 'development models' can be descriptive, explanatory and prescriptive. In the cases of China and India, there is a clear pattern of historical emergence of the new economic system in the two countries. Beyond that, in either the explanatory or prescriptive sense, evidence from the two experiences are not consistent to support popular development models, formulated largely out of the earlier development experiences; nor are they strong enough to call for (a) new development model(s).

The book is an outcome of an internationally collaborated research project on the role of institutions in China's economic development, sponsored by the China Centre, 2009-2010.

Contents

  1. Introduction: Development Experiences and Development Models; X.Huang
  2. Growth Paradigms of China and India: A Conventional Framework of Growth Analysis; D.K.Das
  3. A Demand – Supply Analysis of China's and India's Economic Growth; S.Chatterjee
  4. One Economics, Many Recipes: An Institutional Approach to Explaining Economic Growth; J.Fu
  5. From Dingzhou to Nandigram: Social Conflict, Party Society, and Inter-Government Dynamics; L.Guang
  6. Regime Types, Political Change and Economic Development: The Cases of India and China; B.Zhiyue
  7. China and India: Education in Paths to Prosperity; K.B.Kumar & Y.Liu
  8. Labor Movement and Economic Growth: Shaping and Managing the Lewis Transition in China and India; J.Young
  9. China's Economic Growth Engine: The Likely Types of Hardware Failure, Software Failure, and Power Supply Failure; W.T.Woo
  10. Comparing National Sustainability in China and India; B.Gilley
  11. The 'Living Wisdom' of China's Development Experience; Z.Deng
  12. Conclusion: The End of Development Models?; X.Huang