Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development

Explores the relationship between the Chinese peasantry and the state-led economic system established by the Party after 1949.

Nicholas R. Lardy (Author)

9780521071703, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2008

300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

Explores the relationship between the Chinese peasantry, who are the fundamental base of support for the revolutionary Chinese Communist Party, and the state-led economic system established by the Party after 1949.

List of tables, figures, and maps
Preface
1. The role of agriculture
2. Planning and allocative efficiency
3. Prices and intersectoral resource transfers
4. Living standards and the distribution of income
5. Prospects for reform
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]