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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap Audiobook, by Yuen Yuen Ang Play Audiobook Sample

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap Audiobook

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap Audiobook, by Yuen Yuen Ang Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Catherine Ho Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765071045

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

19

Longest Chapter Length:

58:26 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:27 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:19 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth."

Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate.

Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms.

Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.

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