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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786661203321

Autore

Charlton Andrew

Titolo

Dragon's tail : the lucky country after the China boom / / Andrew Charlton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black, Incorporated, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-922231-56-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Quarterly Essay ; ; Issue 54

Disciplina

338.5442

Soggetti

Economic forecasting

Australia Foreign economic relations China

China Foreign economic relations Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; QUARTERLY ESSAY 54; Contents; The Lucky Country after the China Boom; Lucky Country; The Secret of China's Success; Rickshaw Ride; The Mountains are High and the Emperor is Far Away; Making our Own Luck; The Paradox of Prosperity; Sources; That Sinking Feeling: Correspondence; Mary Crock; Michael Bachelard; Neil James; David Corlett; Andrew Hamilton; Response to Correspondence: Paul Toohey; Contributors; Copyright; Subscribe

Sommario/riassunto

In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Britain's Industrial Revolution. Since 2000, Australia has been an essential part of this transformation, providing the raw materials to feed China's frantic manufacture of steel vertebrae for everything from cars and trucks to railways, apartments and office towers. China's appetite for resources