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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449789003321

Titolo

Developmental dilemmas : land reform and institutional change in China / / edited by Peter Ho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-23153-9

1-280-23672-8

9786610236725

0-203-01268-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

HoPeter <1968->

Disciplina

333.3/151

Soggetti

Land tenure - China

Land use, Rural - China

Sustainable development - China

Electronic books.

China Economic conditions 2000-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Property rights and land in ex-socialist states: lessons of transition for China / Daniel W. Bromley -- Land use rights: legal perspectives and pitfalls for land reform / Weiguo Wang -- The politics of rural land use planning / Frank N. Pieke -- Land tenure in China: facts, fictions and issues / Scott Rozelle ... [et al.] -- Market versus administrative reallocation of land: an econometric analysis / Michael R. Carter and Yang Yao -- Regional differences in land holdings and land use: analyzing the first agricultural census / Roberto Fanfani and Cristina Brasili -- What drives land fragmentation? Theoretical approaches and empirical analysis / Shuhao Tan, Futian Qu, and Nico Heerink -- Collective landownership and its role in rural industrialization / Xiaolin Pei -- Property rights reform in pastoral areas: dilemmas on the road to the household ranch / Tony Banks -- Collective forests and forestland: physical asset rights versus economic rights / Yaoqi Zhang and Shashi Kant -- Gender, landlessness and equity in rural China / Zongmin Li and John Bruce.



Sommario/riassunto

Developmental Dilemmas singles out land as an object of study and places it in the context of one of the world's largest and most populous countries undergoing institutional reform: the People's Republic of China. The book demonstrates that private property protected by law, the principle of 'getting-the-prices-right', and the emergence of effectively functioning markets are the outcome of a given society's historical development and institutional fabric. Peter Ho argues that the successful creation of new institutions hinges in part on choice and timing in relation to the particular