China-India Pathways of Economic and Social Development Davin Harriss-White

China-India\n\nPathways of Economic and Social Development\n\n9780197265673\n\nHardback, published 13 March 2014\n\n220 pages\n24.2 x 16.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.58 kg\n\nChina and India: the world's most populous countries whose rapidly developing economies are shaping global politics for the 21st century. Many studies have characterised their differences. This book's approach is unusual in that the chapters are less concerned with 'lags' and 'competition', on which most comparative writing on China and India focuses, and more concerned with the structure of the differences between their trajectories.\n\nThe themes developed are international and domestic economic development, the labour force, the social consequences of demographic change, and the impact of both economy and society on the environment. Each theme is examined in a pair of chapters which give authoritative analysis of the similarities and differences between the two countries. Probing behind the obvious contrasts, the essays dis]