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1. Introduction : understanding central-local relations in China / John A. Donaldson -- 2. Central-provincial power relations in the fiscal realm of China, 1980-2014 / S. Philip Hsu -- 3.China's perforated investment control, 1978-2013 / Yukyung Yeo -- 4. China's regional development policy / Long Yang -- 5. China's administrative hierarchy : the balance of power and winners and losers within China's levels of government / John A. Donaldson -- 6. Implementation : changing norms, issue-variance, and unending tugs of war / Jae Ho Chung -- 7. China's culture policy and the central-local relationship / Tse-Kang Leng -- 8. Recentralization in China's social welfare regime / Xufeng Zhu -- 9. Central-local interactions in foreign affairs / Mingjiang Li.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chinese Terms -- Introduction -- 1. Guizhou and Yunnan in Comparison -- 2. Why Do Similar Areas Adopt Different Developmental Strategies? -- 3. Roads: Building Connections to Markets -- 4. Migration: Go East, Young Man (and Woman) -- 5. Tourism: Joyous Village Life -- 6. Coal Mining: Black Gold -- Conclusion: The Micro-Oriented State, Development, and Poverty -- Appendix: Methodology and Case Selection -- References -- Index.

How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces--Yunnan and Guizhou--that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In Yunnan, an outward-oriented developmental state, one that focuses on large-scale, urban development, has largely failed to reduce poverty, even though it succeeded in stimulating economic growth. Provincial policy shaped roads, tourism, and mining in ways that often precluded participation by poor people. By contrast, Guizhou is a micro-oriented state, one that promotes small-scale, low-skill economic opportunities--and so reduces poverty despite slow economic growth. It is no coincidence that this Guizhou approach parallels the ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou's leader, helped establish the micro-oriented state in the province. Donaldson's conclusions have implications for our understanding of development and poverty reduction, economic change in China, and the thinking behind China's policy decisions. -- Book jacket

AbstractI outline two ways of reading what is at issue in the exclusion problem faced by non-reductive physicalism, the "vertical" versus "horizontal", and argue that the vertical reading is to be preferred to the horizontal. I discuss the implications: that those who have pursued solutions to the horizontal reading of the problem have taken a wrong turn.