Awakening giants, feet of clay : assessing the economic rise of China and India
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Awakening giants, feet of clay : assessing the economic rise of China and India
AUTHOR:
Bardhan, Pranab K.
ISBN:
9780691156408
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010
PHYSICAL_DESC:
178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index.
Pranab Bardhan is professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley
ABSTRACT:
The economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention - and justifiably so. The author scrutinizes the phenomenal rise of both nations, and demolishes the myths that have accumulated around the economic achievements of these two giants over the years.
SUBJECT:
| China -- Economic policy -- 2000- |
| India -- Economic policy -- 1991- |
| China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- |
| India -- Economic conditions -- 1991- |
| China -- Social conditions -- 2000- |
| India -- Social conditions -- 20th century |
BIBSUMMARY:
The economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention - and justifiably so. The author scrutinizes the phenomenal rise of both nations, and demolishes the myths that have accumulated around the economic achievements of these two giants over the years.