China, India and the End of Development Models

by Huang, Xiaoming; Tan, Alex C.; Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar

• ISBN13: 9780230301580
• ISBN10: 0230301584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Promoting the understanding of the impressive economic growth and social transformation in China and India, the authors demonstrate the diverse economic, political, social, cultural, international and historical conditions in these two developing countries and point out the theoretical problems of comparative development models in particular.

Author Biography

Xiaoming Huang is professor of Intermational Relations and Director of New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches East Asian Politics, International Relations of East Asia, and Chinas Politics and International Relations. He publishes on East Asia's political economy, modern developrnent of China, and international relations of East Asia. He is the author of the Rise and fall of the East Asian Growth System: Institutional Competitiveness and Rapid Economic Growth. Alex C. Tan is Associate Protessor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also Associate Director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, Senior Fellow of the John G. Tower Center of Political Studies at Southern Methodist University USA, and Research Associate of the Election Study Center in Taipei, Taiwan. He has Published widely in the area of comparative political parties, political economy and Asian politics. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Asia History at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His primary research interest is in nationalism and the minorities in colonial and post-colonial India. He is also interested in the history of Indian migration and the Indian diaspora. Professor Bandyopadhyay is the author of Decolonization is South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal and the editor of India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: Development Experiences and Development Models	p. 1
Growth Paradigms of China and India: A Conventional Framework of Growth Analysis	p. 32
A Supply-Demand Analysis of Economic Growth of China and India	p. 51
One Economics, Many Recipes: An Institutional Approach to Explaining Economic Growth	p. 68
From Dingzhou to Nandigram: Social Conflict, Party Society, and Inter-Governmental Dynamics	p. 82
Regime Types, Political Change and Economic Development: The Cases of India and China	p. 99
China and India: Education in Paths to Prosperity	p. 129
Labor Movement and Economic Growth: Shaping and Managing the Lewis Transition in China and India	p. 150
China's Economic Growth Engine: The Likely Types of Hardware Failure, Software Failure, and Power Supply Failure	p. 180
Comparing National Sustainability in China and India	p. 218
The "Living Wisdom" of China's Development Experience	p. 233
Conclusion: The End of Development Models?	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 267
Index	p. 290
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