Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run / Angus Maddison

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Maddison, Angus.

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Development Centre.

Series:

Development Centre Studies, 19900295.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic forecasting--China.

Economic forecasting.

China--Economic conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is unique in its depth of perspective. It uses a comparative approach to explain why China’s role in the world economy has changed so dramatically in the last thousand years. It concludes that China is likely to resume its natural role as the world’s largest economy by the year 2015, thus regaining the position it had held until the end of the nineteenth century. The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China. Written by the author of many studies on comparative economic history, including two best sellers for the OECD Development Centre, this book is essential reading for all those who seek to understand the role of China in the world economy, in the past, as well as in the present and the future.

Contents:

Foreword by the Secretary-General of the OECD

Acknowledgements

Preface by Javier Santiso

Author's Prelude to the Second Edition

Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 1. Intensive and Extensive Growth in Imperial China

Chapter 2. Economic Decline and External Humiliation, 1820-1949

Chapter 3. Dynamics of Development in the New China

Chapter 4. Problems and Prospects: The Outlook for China and the World Economy 2003-2030

Appendix A. Performance in Farming, Fishery, Forestry, and Agricultural Sidelines, China 1933-95

Appendix B. Industrial Performance, China, 1913-2003

Appendix C. Growth and Level of Chinese Gross National Product

Appendix D. Population and EmploymentAppendix E. Foreign Trade

Appendix F. Pople and Places in Pinyin and Wade-Giles

Maps

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194).

ISBN:

92-64-16355-7