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China and India: the world's most populous countries whose rapidly developing economies are shaping global politics for the 21st century. Many studies have characterised their differences. This book's approach is unusual in that the chapters are less concerned with 'lags' and 'competition', on which most comparative writing on China and India focuses, and more concerned with the structure of the differences between their trajectories.
The themes developed are international and domestic economic development, the labour force, the social consequences of demographic change, and the impact of both economy and society on the environment. Each theme is examined in a pair of chapters which give authoritative analysis of the similarities and differences between the two countries. Probing behind the obvious contrasts, the essays disclose important ways in which the two countries are alike in facing the problems produced in large, formerly agrarian societies by rapid economic development and interaction with the global economy.
China-India: Pathways of Economic and Social Development will be of interest to scholars in social sciences, political researchers, policy makers and journalists.
Contents
Introduction
I China and India: The Domestic Economy
1: Carl Riskin: China: development, Inequality and Imbalance
2: Kunal Sen: The Indian Economy in the Post-Reform Period: Growth without Structural Transformation?
II China, India and the International Economy
3: Peter J. Buckley: The Challenges of China and the International Economy
4: Vijay Joshi and Devesh Kapur: India and the World Economy
III Changing demographic profiles
5: Delia Davin: The social impact of demographic change in China
6: Patricia Jeffery, Professor of Sociology, University of Edinburgh: India: the social consequences of demographic change.
IV Migration and regimes of labour
7: Dorothy J. Solinger: The Modalities of Geographical Mobility in China and their Impacts, 1980-2010
8: Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey: 'Lopsided', 'Failed', or 'Tortuous': India's Problematic Transition and its Implications for Labour
V The Environment: crises and responses
9: Minqi Li: China: Energy, Environment, and Limits to Growth
10: Ravi Rajan: Environment and Development in India
