China's Economy on the Eve of Reform

1995 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 980-998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nolan ◽  
Robert F. Ash
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Strategic Initiatives ◽  
China’S Economy

Pressures for change are inherent in leadership succession under any political system. In China, because of his longevity and close involvement in major strategic initiatives, Mao Zedong's passing was bound to intensify such pressures. When he died in September 1976, Mao had held supreme power, largely unchallenged, for four decades. Since 1949, China's economic development had been uniquely, if not consistently, influenced by his personal prejudices and idiosyncratic view of how best to realize the country's development potential.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA AND EUROPE: RECIPROCAL COMPARISONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-37
Author(s):  
Stephen Broadberry ◽  
Leigh Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Development Index ◽  
National Accounting ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Per Capita

ABSTRACTRecent advances in historical national accounting have allowed for global comparisons of GDPper capitaacross space and time. Critics have argued that GDPper capitafails to capture adequately the multi-dimensional nature of welfare, and have developed alternative measures such as the human development index. Whilst recognising that these wider indicators provide an appropriate way of assessing levels of welfare, we argue that GDPper capitaremains a more appropriate measure for assessing development potential, focussing on production possibilities and the sustainability of consumption. Twentieth-century Africa and pre-industrial Europe are used to show how such data can guide reciprocal comparisons to provide insights into the process of development on both continents.

scholarly journals SOUTH KOREAN LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIZATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Grażyna STRNAD
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Late Twentieth

This article aims to show the process of formation and operation (functioning) of the changing political system of South Korea. It is undertaken for the analysis of the process of the collapse of the former authoritarian political system and formation of South Korean democracy. Indicated in this article are the roles and participation of political leaders (Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo, Kim Young Sam, and Kim Dae Jung) in the process of intense political change that took place in South Korea from the 1980s to the late twentieth century.During the authoritarian regimes of South Korea, the nation recorded spectacular economic development, but without political development. Political leadership in the democratization of the country was still authoritarian. Core values and attitudes of politicians pointed to the presence of the cultural heritage of Confucianism in politics.

scholarly journals The situation of the Hungarian apricot farming and its developmental tendencies

2014 ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Réka Pleszkó
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
National Level ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Eu

The EC has declared „gönci magyar kajszi” as a product of specific origin with geographicald enomination. The „pálinka”isregistered Hungarian productin the EU. The micro-region of apricot production, named Gönc, has the privilege to utilize the great potential for rural development by its apricot production. To determine the development potential connected to apricot, needs through investigations on apricot production.This paper investigate apricot production at global, European and national levels. At national level each key aspects of apricot production have been analized. The final conclusions referring to Gönc micro-regionare: Northern Hungary region has got the biggest apricot area(within that Gönc has got outstanding role). The share of apricot cultivars of gönci origin ”has got overwhelming role in the Hungarian Cultivar assortment, the living tradition of production in this micro-region makes it possible, that gönci apricot will contribute to the overall socio-economic development in the region to a remarkable extend.

Shallow Analysis on Problems and Countermeasures of Energy Trade in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 564-568
Author(s):  
Lin Zhi Du ◽  
Xiao Chen ◽  
Xiao Yan Tian ◽  
Ai Ying Shang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Energy Trade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Analysis ◽  
China’S Economy

With the rapid growth of China's economy, industrialization and urbanization process accelerate, energy has become a bottleneck for economic development, more and more people take energy trade and energy security into concern. Based on the status analysis of energy trade in China, according to the existing problems in the energy trade we put forward the corresponding countermeasures.

World. Challenges of Global Crisis. Japan

2013 ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
I. Semenenko ◽  
I. Labinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Studies ◽  
The Subject

The cycle of publications on trends and prospects of major world nations is continued by a piece on Japan prepared at a workshop of the Center of social-economic and social-political studies at IMEMO RAN. Doctor D. Streltsov (MGIMO-University, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) spoke on the subject of the party-political system evolution in Japan as well as on the prospects of the social security system reforming. S. Chugrov, editor-in-chief of the "Polis" magazine, focused on tendencies and expectations of the Japanese society, particularly in regard to territorial disputes and historical memory. That issue was also at the center of the presentation of Professor N. Simotaman from Hosey University, Tokyo, while E. Leontieva of IMEMO dealt with new trends in Japan’s economic development, especially the “abenomics”.

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