China's Development Priorities

"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.

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

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