TY - BOOK ID - 14267222 TI - Small Works PY - 2011 SN - 0801462789 0801462770 0801449685 9780801462771 9780801449680 9780801462788 PB - Ithaca, NY DB - UniCat KW - Poverty KW - Economic development KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Destitution KW - Yunnan Sheng (China) KW - Guizhou Sheng (China) KW - Kweichau (China) KW - Kwei-chow (China : Province) KW - Kuei-chou sheng (China) KW - Kweichow (China : Province) KW - Kishū-shō (China) KW - Kuei-chou (China : Province) KW - Kweichow Province (China) KW - Kweichow, China (Province) KW - Gui Zhou (China : Province) KW - Kuei-chou sheng jen min cheng fu (China) KW - Guizhousheng (China) KW - Yünnan, China (Province) KW - Yün-nan sheng (China) KW - Yunnan Province (China) KW - Yün-nan (China : Province) KW - Unnan-shō (China) KW - Unnanshō (China) KW - Yün-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) KW - Yün-nan sheng cheng fu (China) KW - Yun Nan Province (China) KW - 云南省 (China) KW - Economic conditions. KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Wealth KW - Basic needs KW - Begging KW - Poor KW - Subsistence economy KW - 贵州省 (China) KW - E-books KW - S03/0523 KW - S03/0624 KW - S10/0251 KW - S11/0550 KW - China: Geography, description and travel--Travels: since 1989 KW - China: Geography, description and travel--Guizhou KW - China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: since 1989 KW - China: Social sciences--Social welfare system UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14267222 AB - How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces-Yunnan and Guizhou-that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In Yunnan, an outward-oriented developmental state, one that focuses on large-scale, urban development, has largely failed to reduce poverty, even though it succeeded in stimulating economic growth. Provincial policy shaped roads, tourism, and mining in ways that often precluded participation by poor people. By contrast, Guizhou is a micro-oriented state, one that promotes small-scale, low-skill economic opportunities-and so reduces poverty despite slow economic growth. It is no coincidence that this Guizhou approach parallels the ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou's leader, helped establish the micro-oriented state in the province. Donaldson's conclusions have implications for our understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions. ER -