Book review of Invisible China: How the urban-rural divide threatens China’s rise
Publication Type
Book Review
Publication Date
4-2023
Abstract
In Invisible China, Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell argue that a human capital crisis in China’s rural population threatens the continued development of the Chinese economy and is likely to cause China to stumble into the ‘middle-income trap’. The key theoretical insight underlying this argument is the ‘time inconsistency’ that middle-income countries face: the human capital requirements for their further advance must be built up decades in advance when there is no need for that in a low- to middle-income economy. This inconsistency is particularly heightened in China’s case. China’s rapid advance to middle-income status has left it no time to accumulate the broad-based human capital indispensable for the transition to a high-end service economy.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Journal of Development Studies
Volume
59
Issue
4
First Page
613
Last Page
614
ISSN
0022-0388
Identifier
10.1080/00220388.2022.2132709
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Citation
ZHANG, Qian Forrest.(2023). Book review of Invisible China: How the urban-rural divide threatens China’s rise. Journal of Development Studies, 59(4), 613-614.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3650
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2132709