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A response to B. Guy Peters. This is a difficult topic for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the historically brief period occupied by these developments, which requires that any assessment be tentative in Cornell Studies in Political Economy.

Ang, Yuen Yuen, and Nan Jia. How China escaped the poverty trap. Cornell University Press. Autor, D. The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States. American Economic Review, 6 , China's cooperation practices stem from domestic modernisation lessons but the feedback from abroad is increasingly shaping Chen, Ling.

Collier, Andrew. Skip to content. Political Science. China s Gilded Age. How China Escaped Shock Therapy. Author : Isabella M. Thirsty Cities. Theoretically, her systematic engagement with diverse literatures circumvents disagreement over which came first, democracy or development, to make a field-shifting move to non-linear complex processes.

Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of Kicking Away the Ladder and Economics : "Sometimes the best way to answer a difficult question is to ask a different question. In this book, instead of asking the usual question—How has China developed despite having low-quality institutions?

This innovative and sophisticated book is an outstanding contribution not only to the study of Chinese economic development but also to the long-running debate on the role of institutions in economic development. Kellee S. This core question is explored through a secondary question about the sequential relationship between effective governance and economic growth: Did growth follow or result from state capacity?

Yuen Yuen Ang states that the government and economy coevolved, meaning they adapted to each other. She identifies a three-step sequence to this coevolutionary process and shows, surprisingly, that the first step of development is actually to build markets with 'weak' institutions, that is, features inconsistent with norms of good governance.

Ang crafts this original and compelling argument using a rich base of fieldwork, including more than three hundred interviews that introduce readers to real voices on the ground. James Mahoney, Northwestern University, co-author of Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis : "In this major new contribution, Yuen Yuen Ang offers a fresh synthetic explanation for the stunning economic transformation of China in recent decades.

She shows how China experienced sustained rapid economic development by transforming weak institutions in ways that strengthened states and markets simultaneously. This book points toward a potential model of growth for other countries and is a must-read for all scholars interested in explaining development trajectories in the Global South. Michael Woolock: "Future studies of bureaucratic life in China and elsewhere must reckon seriously with Ang's account; she has set an admirably high bar and capably filled a conspicuous scholarly vacuum.

It is encouraging that the development policy community is also taking note As an opening statement, her book is compelling, important, and deserving of a wide audience. Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development: "Development economists have struggled to explain the extraordinary growth of the state-led Chinese economy—despite apparent violations of the usual 'micro rules. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap is worth reading with that in mind. Yongmei Zhou: "The first takeaway of the book, that a poor country can harness the institutions they have and get development going is a liberating message This provocative message challenges our prevailing practice of assessing a country's institutions by their distance from the global best practice The second part of the book is equally thought provoking.

While adaptive approaches to development have become new buzzwords, Yuen Yuen's work brings rigor to this conversation