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A Boom financed by taxes on the poor
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-25, 23:01 authored by Gao, MCFThat is the second salient feature of today's China: the increasing influence of neoliberalism in policy-making. This doctrine dictates that to catch up, China has to go through a primitive process of capital accumulation similar to the process of British industrialisation. Profits have to be made at somebody's cost. And the somebodies, in this case, are the rural poor, shedding sweat to develop modern China.
History
Publication title
New StatesmanVolume
17/18Article number
839/84Number
839/84Pagination
19-20ISSN
1364-7431Publication status
- Published
Repository Status
- Open