China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06X9ZGLLL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 577 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert Ray said Great read on China's development and changes. A very interesting history of how migration opened up China's economy. The author writes that its economic transformation was first started by the need to find employment for millions of people who returned to their hometowns after having been banished to the countryside during the horrific Cultural Revolution, followed by the need to find jobs for more millions of unemployed or undere
What has caused this dramatic transformation? In China's Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation, author Bradley Gardner looks at one of the most important but least discussed forces pushing China's economic development: the migration of more than 260 million people from their birthplaces to China's most economically vibrant cities. Struggling to respond to the demands of these migrants, the Chinese government loosened its grip on the economy, strengthening property rights and allowing migrants to employ themselves and each other, spurring the Chinese economic miracle. More than simply a narrative of economic progress, China's Great Migration tells the human story of China's transformation, featuring interviews with the men and women whose way of life has been remade. China's rise over the past several decades has lifted more than half of its population out of poverty and reshaped the global economy. In the aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, the collapse of totalitarian government control allowed millions of people to skirt migration restrictions and move to China's growing cities, where they offered a massive pool of labor that propelled industrial development,
“China’s Great Migration is timely and makes good reading at a time when political forces in the developed world are turning against migration and its benefits." —Sir Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Prize Laureate, Economic Sciences; Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics