EAS133   Chinese Economic Development   (10 credits)

Description

This module looks at the economic development of China between 1949 and the present day. Topics to be covered include economic performance during the 1950s; the Great Famine of the early 1960s (which killed 30 million); the economic policies of the Maoist era and the Cultural Revolution; the transition strategy adopted in the 1980s; China's opening up to foreign trade; the abandonment of socialism and the transition to capitalism; current economic problems. A wide range of development indicators such as GDP per head, inequality and human development are considered so the approach adopted in the course is not narrowly economic. Some prior knoweldge of basic economics is useful but is certainly not required to do well on this module.

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