Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

ISBN-13: 9780415542852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 380 str.

Biliang Hu

Opis

Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Background of the Study  2. Village Trust, Guanxi Community and IVWC Governance: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Informal Institutional Analysis in Rural China  3. Indigenous Conceptions of Networks  4. Selection of Research Areas  5. Village Trust and Bidding ROSCAs  6. Guanxi Community and People’s Mobility  7. Guanxi Community and Township Enterprise Development in China  8. Institution of ‘Integrating Village with Company’ (IVWC) and Rural Community Development  9. Conclusion: Integration of Tradition and Modernity – Towards Understanding Institutional Arrangements in China’s Modernization

O autorze

Biliang Hu is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Senior Research Fellow of the Academy's Rural Development Institute. He received his Doctorate of Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. His main academic interests are in institutional analysis in relation to village governance and rural development.