China's Development Priorities

by Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru

• ISBN13: 9780821365090
• ISBN10: 0821365096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: World Bank

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
About the Author	xi
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xiii
PART 1 On the Eve of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan	1	(32)
Chapter 1 Introduction	3	(4)
Chapter 2 Rising Incomes, Declining Poverty, Growing Inequality	7	(26)
Geographic Concentration of Development and the Sources of Growth	13	(8)
Containing the Resource Intensity of Development	21	(4)
Environmental Diseconomies	25	(6)
Global Integration and Resource Dependence	31	(2)
PART 2 Policies for Rapid, Balanced, and Sustainable Growth	33	(82)
Chapter 3 Sustaining Growth	35	(46)
Supply-Side Developments	36	(1)
Demand-Led Growth	37	(6)
Sectoral Sources of Growth	43	(4)
Pattern of Urban Development and Agglomeration Effects	47	(7)
Moving to Cities	54	(2)
Migration Policy and Reform of the Hukou System	56	(5)
National Innovation System, Information Technology, and FDI	61	(5)
FDI in China	66	(3)
Promoting FDI	69	(2)
State-Owned Enterprise and Banking Sector Reforms	71	(4)
Impact of WTO Accession on the Domestic	75	(6)
Economy and Trade Partners
Chapter 4 Reducing Poverty and Achieving Interregional Balance	81	(18)
Human Development Outcomes	86	(3)
Avenues to Balanced Development	89	(7)
Inequality and Development	96	(3)
Chapter 5 Conserving Energy and Water Resources	99	(16)
Energy Intensity	99	(3)
Energy Policy	102	(6)
Distribution of Water Resources	108	(1)
Water Policy	109	(6)
PART 3 Summing Up	115	(10)
Chapter 6 Connecting the Issues	117	(8)
Equitable Growth That Is Sustainable	117	(2)
Closing the Rural-Urban Welfare Gap	119	(2)
Implications of a Bigger Global Footprint	121	(3)
The Next Decade for China and the World	124	(1)
References	125	(24)
Index	149