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Despite widespread agreement among economists that labor-intensive manufacturing has contributed mightily to rapid development in China and other fast-growing economies, most developing countries have had little success in raising the share of manufacturing in production, employment, or exports. Tales from the Development Frontier recounts efforts to establish light manufacturing clusters in several Asian and African countries, looking in particular at China. A companion volume to Light Manufacturing in Africa-which laid out a strategy for injecting new industrial growth nodes into African eco
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors and Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Tables; I.1 Contributions of Light Manufacturing in Food Processing, Textiles, and Garments to Industrialization, 1839-1981; I.2 Offices and Enterprises Visited by the Study Team, China, 2010 and 2012; Maps; I.1 Cities Visited by the Study Team, China, 2010 and 2012; Part I: Tales of China; 1 The Development of Light Manufacturing; 1.1 State Sector Employment Growth in Major Industries, China, 1952-78; Boxes; 1.1 Milestones of China's Economic Reforms
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1.2 Growth of Township and Village Enterprises, China, 1978-901.1 China: Regional Variation in Population Density; 1.3 Long-Term Trends in International Merchandise Trade and FDI, China, 1913-2012; 1.4 Contribution of Private and Individual Business Firms to the Economy, China, 2006-08; Figures; 1.1 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Per 1,000 People, Selected Transition Economies, 2000-05; 1.5 Output Growth in Major Light Manufacturing Products, China, 1970-2010; 1.2 Manufacturing Output, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China, 1982-89
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1.3 Light Manufacturing Enterprises by Ownership Structure, China, 1999-20101.4 Output Value of Light Manufacturing by Ownership Structure, China, 1999-2010; 1.5 Labor Productivity of Light Manufacturing Firms, by Ownership Structure, China, 1999-2007; 1.6 Share of Global Exports of Textiles and Apparel, China, 1980-2010; 1.7 Top 10 Export Sectors, China, 2000 and 2010; 1.8 Share of Major Light Manufacturing Sectors in Industrial Output, China, 2001-10; 1.9 Wages in Selected Coastal Locations, China, 2000-12; 1.10 Cost of Industrial Land in Dongguan, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, China, 2001-08
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1.11 Outbound Nonfinancial FDI, China, 2003-122 Resolving the Binding Constraints; 2.1 Price Determination in Commodity Markets, by State or Market, China, 1990-96; 2.2 Share of Prices Determined by Market Forces, by Commodity Type and Province, China, 1994; 2.3 Regional Concentrations of Investment and State Industry in the Planned Economy, China, Various Years to 1980-81; 3 Major Policy Tools; 3.1 Location of Special Economic Zones and Selected Open Areas, China, Mid-1980s; 3.1 Forms of Foreign Investment in Three Initial Special Economic Zones, China, 1980-84
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3.1 Industrial Output in the Four Initial Special Economic Zones, China, 19893.2 Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China, 2009; 3.2 Industrial Districts in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China; 3.2 Growth in the Number of Newly Added Provincial Economic Development Zones, China, 1984-2006; 3.3 Growth in the Number of Provincial Economic Development Zones, by Region, China, 1985-2003; 3.3 Statistics on 90 National Economic Development Zones, China, 2010; 3.4 Top Priority Industries in Province-Level Development Zones, by Region, China, 2006
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3.5 Leading Products of Light Manufacturing Clusters, Seven Localities, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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