Umfang:
1 online resource (172 pages)
ISBN:
9780821365106
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0821365096
Serie:
Directions in Development
Inhalt:
Over the past two decades China's growth has been rapid, social indicators have improved, and poverty levels have inched downward. However,widening inequality, increasing resource and financial imbalances, and growing environmental concerns provide China with daunting challenges in improving the quality of growth. The rapid growth that will remain China's principal vehicle for raising standards of living and reducing poverty will derive from urbanization, increased market efficiency, and improvement in the technological capability of Chinese firms. But although growth will be critically important, balance among income groups and sectors is likely to be vital for social stability. The needed measures to enhance the quantity and quality of social services and a more effective safety net for the poor will require a number of institutional changes, including a reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations. Directed at readers working in economic policy, poverty reduction, social development, and urban and municipal finance,China's Development Priorities highlights the significance of the challenges facing China and suggests policies for achieving rapid, balanced, and sustainable growth.
Inhalt:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- PART 1 On the Eve of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Rising Incomes, Declining Poverty, Growing Inequality -- Geographic Concentration of Development and the Sources of Growth -- Containing the Resource Intensity of Development -- Environmental Diseconomies -- Global Integration and Resource Dependence -- PART 2 Policies for Rapid, Balanced, and Sustainable Growth -- Chapter 3 Sustaining Growth -- Supply-Side Developments -- Demand-Led Growth -- Sectoral Sources of Growth -- Pattern of Urban Development and Agglomeration Effects -- Moving to Cities -- Migration Policy and Reform of the Hukou System -- National Innovation System, Information Technology, and FDI -- FDI in China -- Promoting FDI -- State-Owned Enterprise and Banking Sector Reforms -- Impact of WTO Accession on the Domestic Economy and Trade Partners -- Chapter 4 Reducing Poverty and Achieving Interregional Balance -- Human Development Outcomes -- Avenues to Balanced Development -- Inequality and Development -- Chapter 5 Conserving Energy and Water Resources -- Energy Intensity -- Energy Policy -- Distribution of Water Resources -- Water Policy -- PART 3 Summing Up -- Chapter 6 Connecting the Issues -- Equitable Growth That Is Sustainable -- Closing the Rural-Urban Welfare Gap -- Implications of a Bigger Global Footprint -- The Next Decade for China and the World -- References -- Index -- Figures -- 2.1 Wheat Production and Primary Output in China, 1990-2004 -- 2.2 Population Distribution in China, by Region, 1985-2004 -- 3.1 Household Saving Rates in China, Japan, and Korea, 1953-2003 -- 4.1 Average Years of Schooling in China's Provinces, by Rural or Urban Location, 2000 -- 4.2 Average Years of Schooling in China, by Region, 1982, 1990, and 2000.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Acronyms and Abbreviations; PART 1 On the Eve of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan; Tables; Figures; PART 2 Policies for Rapid, Balanced, and Sustainable Growth; PART 3 Summing Up; References; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780821365090
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821365090
Sprache:
Englisch
