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The overall result is an initial productive surplus that primes demand for goods and services.

China’s communications, as well as the managing of its fragile environment – dependent on water, threatened by floods – required an unusual degree of bureaucratic liaison between centre, province and district.

The first intervention – and the most overlooked – is to maximise output from agriculture, which employs the vast majority of people in poor countries. Successful east Asian states have shown that the way to do this is to restructure agriculture as highly labour-intensive household farming

Hurst's analysis demonstrates the importance of multisited research in China, illustrating how regional differences in political economy crucially affect…

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