{"product_id":"awakening-giants-feet-of-clay-assessing-the-economic-rise-of-china-and-india-paperback","title":"Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Economic Rise of China and India - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePranab Bardhan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comparative look at the astonishing economic rise of modern China and India\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet, many of the views regarding China and India's market reforms and high growth have been tendentious, exaggerated, or oversimplified. \u003ci\u003eAwakening Giants, Feet of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e scrutinizes the phenomenal rise of both nations, and demolishes the myths that have accumulated around the economic achievements of these two giants in the last quarter century. Exploring the challenges that both countries must overcome to become true leaders in the international economy, Pranab Bardhan looks beyond short-run macroeconomic issues to examine and compare China and India's major policy changes, political and economic structures, and current general performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBardhan investigates the two countries' economic reforms, each nation's pattern and composition of growth, and the problems afflicting their agricultural, industrial, infrastructural, and financial sectors. He considers how these factors affect China and India's poverty, inequality, and environment, how political factors shape each country's pattern of burgeoning capitalism, and how significant poverty reduction in both countries is mainly due to domestic factors--not global integration, as most would believe. He shows how authoritarianism has distorted Chinese development while democratic governance in India has been marred by severe accountability failures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of valuable insights, \u003ci\u003eAwakening Giants, Feet of Clay\u003c\/i\u003e provides a nuanced picture of China and India's complex political economy at a time of startling global reconfiguration and change.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pranab Bardhan is one of our most sophisticated thinkers on economic development. His skills are on display in this enormously insightful book. I cannot think of a better comparative guide to the rise of China and India.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dani Rodrik, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bardhan's book is erudite, informative, and accessible, and his scrutiny of the conventional wisdom about the past quarter century of reform in China and India is always provocative. You do not have to agree with him to be stimulated and rewarded by his insightful scholarship. This book deserves a wide audience.\"\u003cb\u003e--Tarun Khanna, author of \u003ci\u003eBillions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures, and Yours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is an important reference for anyone interested in growth and poverty alleviation in China and India. It makes eye-opening comparisons and offers acute insights across such wide-ranging topics as poverty and inequality, labor and anticompetitive regulations, industrial concentration in India compared to other countries, electricity in Indian agriculture, Chinese financing of roads, and Indian and Chinese business-state relations.\"\u003cb\u003e--Philip Keefer, World Bank\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePranab Bardhan\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include \u003ci\u003eScarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52299401363730,"sku":"9780691156408","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/UUxkcGN0cnN4cGlSUGp6Y1IxNHdjQT09.webp?v=1779836277","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/awakening-giants-feet-of-clay-assessing-the-economic-rise-of-china-and-india-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}