Jianbo Ma

The Land Development Game in China (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book describes how land plays a central role in the rapid economic growth of a Chinese region (with the fictitious name of "Dragon County"). Concerned with grain self-sufficiency, the national government of China employs a central planning approach to control the amount of farmland to be converted to urban uses each year. However, the scarcity of land development rights creates high incentives for various local players to evade national policies. Supported by a large number of specific examples, the book illustrates how local players adopt many kinds of strategies to engage in informal land development, and how the national government maneuvers its policies such that both farmland protection and economic growth objectives are achieved. The story of Dragon County, though not necessarily representative of other Chinese regions, suggests that the existing land system has worked reasonably well in promoting land use efficiency and economic growth at the same time, but the distributional problems created reflect a strong need for changing the rules of the game.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216327615
• Artikelnr.: 74842775

Autorenporträt

Jianbo Ma is an independent researcher based in Beijing, China. His research interests include China's land, environmental and education policies. Before becoming independent, he had worked at Tsinghua University, the National Environmental Protection Agency of China, and the secretariat of a high-level advisory body to China's top leaders on sustainable development. In addition to being a policy expert, he is also a professional interpreter (Chinese/English), and has worked for numerous high-level policy makers from China and around the world. He received his BA in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University, China and his PhD in policy studies from the University of Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. The System and the Players Chapter 2. The
Land System Chapter 3. The National Government Chapter 4. Local Governments
Chapter 5. The Village Chapter 6. Farmers Chapter 7. Developers Chapter 8.
Dispute Settlement Mechanisms Part II Workings of the System Chapter 9.
Difficulty of Central Planning Chapter 10. Inevitability of Informal
Markets Chapter 11. Guanxi as an Invisible Hand Chapter 12. Success of the
System Part III Policy Thoughts Chapter 13. Scale, Distribution, and
Allocation Chapter 14. Rules and Plays ANNEX I: List of Fictitious Names
ANNEX II: Maps