Rural Industrialization in China and India: Role of Policies and Institutions

World Development

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1621-1634

  Mukherjee, Anit ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

China; growth; India; industrialization; inequality; nonfarm economy

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; STATE ROLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 35248862476     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.11.008     Document Type: Article

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