State Failure and Distorted Urbanisation in Post-Mao's China, 1993-2012

• Main Authors: Zheng, Yazhuo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Deng, Kent (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Political economy.; Asia-Economic conditions.; Industrial organization.; Public finance.; Economic History.; International Political Economy.; Asian Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Public Economics.

This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-researched provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, which make up a quarter of China's ter...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundation and Literature Review
• Chapter 3: Typical Cases in Northwest China
• Chapter 4: Understanding of China's State and Market
• Chapter 5: Conundrum with Distorted Urbanisation
• Chapter 6: The Central Government and Its Goals
• Chapter 7: State-led Growth and Domestic Debts
• Chapter 8: Final Conclusions. .