Large Countries’ Development Path: Experience and Theory

ISBN-13: 9789811656972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 371 str.

Yao Ouyang

Opis

This book aims to propose a unique analytical framework to find out the general successful experience for large developing countries, which are defined with two main physical characters of large population and vast land. They are naturally crucial for the global development.  Thirteen countries are chosen as large developing countries in this book, which are China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Congo (DRC). On the basis of selecting massive data, the author analyzes the performance of large countries in terms of human resources, natural resources, market size and other factors. The book conducts the comparative study of large countries’ latecomer strength, transformation path and innovation strategy with the perspective of development economics.  It presents a comprehensive overview about large developing countries

Spis treści

Chapter 1   Research Objects and Basic Ideas

Section 1　 Definition and Selection of Large Developing Countries

Section 2　 Evolution of International Status of Large Developing Countries

Section 3　 Review of Research Literature and Logical Thinking

Chapter 2   Economic Development Experience of Large Developed Countries

Section 1　 Development Path of Large European Countries

Section 2　 American Industrialization and Its Characteristics

Section 3　 Industrial Policy of the Rise of Large Countries

Chapter 3   Development Advantage of Large Developing Countries

Section 1　 Perspective of Endowment: Comparative Advantage

Section 2　 Perspective of Development: Latecomer Advantage

Section 3　 Perspective of Scale: Advantage of Large Countries

Chapter 4   Development Pattern of Large Developing Countries

Section 1　 Growth Pattern Based on Domestic Demand

Section 2　 Domestic Demand-driven Export Pattern

Section 3　 Patterns of Infrastructure Construction

Section 4   Patterns of Public Goods Supply

Chapter 5   Economic Transformation of Developing Countries

Section 1　 Agriculture Industrialization and Scale Operation

Section 2　 Urbanization and Industrial Structure Upgrading

Section 3　 Labor Division Mode and Globalization Dividend

Section 4　 Crossing the “Middle Income Trap”

Chapter 6   Innovation Strategy of Large Developing Countries

Section 1　 Market Scale and Technology Innovation Advantages

Section 2　 From Imitating Innovation to Indigenous Innovation

Section 3　 Measurement of the BRICS Countries’ Innovation Capability

Section 4　 Innovation Path for Large Countries: Chinese Experience

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O autorze

Yao Ouyang, vice president of Hunan Normal University, is the director of the committee for scientific research and discipline development and the director of Large Country Economy Research Center. He is a professor and a doctoral supervisor.

Professor Ouyang got his master’s degree in philosophy from Renmin University of China and his doctorate in economics from Hunan University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Fiscal Science Institute of the Ministry of Finance, and also worked as a senior research scholar at Department of Economics of Harvard University, China Center of Oxford University, and Economic Policy Institute of Stanford Universality. Professor Ouyang is an evaluation expert of Economic Discipline of the National Social Science Foundation, a member of Economics Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, the principal of theoretical economics as the national first-class cultivation discipline, the person in charge of the doctoral program of theoretical economics, one of the first-level disciplines in China.

Professor Ouyang was elected President of the 19th International Schumpeter Society, Vice President of Chinese Business Economics Society, and Vice President of Chinese Emerging Economics Research Association. He is granted the state council government special allowance and selected as a state-level member of “millions of talents project” in the new century. He is also a National Culture Master, Four-Group Talent, and belongs to the first group of philosophy and social science leading talents of the national “Ten Thousand People Plan”.

Professor Ouyang’s research mainly focuses on development economics, international economics and Chinese economic history,. He had made a groundbreaking contribution in the field of development economics of great powers. 

Professor Ouyang presided over 3 major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, 3 major projects of the National Soft Science Research Program and 1 International European Union Fund Project. He has published more than 130 papers in Chinese Social Science, Economic Research and some other important journals. He is also the chief editor of Great Power Economics Series, National Scale and Economic Growth Translation Series, and Great Power Development Economics Series. His representative works Theory of Large Country Economic Development and Large Countries’ Development Path: Experience and Theory were selected into “National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences”. The English version of his Development of BRIC and the Large Country Advantage was selected into “Classic China International Publishing Project” and was published by Springer Publishing Company in 2016. The English version of his Growth and Transformation of Emerging Powers was included in “China Book Foreign Promotion Program” and was published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 2019.

Professor Ouyang won the World Political Economics Outstanding Achievement Award once, An Zijie International Trade Research Award once, First Prize of Excellent Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences of China once.