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  • China's Economy

  • What Everyone Needs to Know®
  • By: Arthur R. Kroeber
  • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
  • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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China's Economy

By: Arthur R. Kroeber
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
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China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s, China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to Africa to Latin America.

China's growth has lifted 700 million people out of poverty. It has also created a monumental environmental mess, with smog-blanketed cities and carbon emissions that are a leading cause of climate change. Multinational companies make billions of dollars in profits in China each year, but traders around the world shudder at every gyration of the country's unruly stock markets. Most surprising of all, its capitalist economy is governed by an authoritarian Communist Party that shows no sign of loosening its grip.

How did China grow so fast for so long? Can it keep growing and still solve its problems of environmental damage, fast-rising debt, and rampant corruption? How long can its vibrant economy co-exist with the repressive one-party state? What do China's changes mean for the rest of the world? China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® answers these questions in straightforward language that you don't need to be an economist to understand, but with a wealth of detail drawn from academic research, interviews with dozens of company executives and policy makers, and a quarter-century of personal experience.

Whether you're doing business in China, negotiating with its government officials, or a student trying to navigate the complexities of this fascinating and diverse country, this is the one book that will tell you everything you need to know about how China works, where it came from and where it's going.

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Great book learnt so much

Its a book i wish i had read many years before. It covers the electoral system to key issues

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An Excellent Book

This book proves why we live in an extraordinary times. Magic on the tip of your fingertip

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Interested and detailed

I am new to audio books and was interested in the Subject matter which is well research and delivered in detail on wish the narrator would have been easier to listen to. I would recommend this book if you are very interested in how China has developed since 1970 to 2014 and where China is going.

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a very good listen

a very informative listen. i really appreciated the unbiased nature of the author and the analysis based outcome of his rationale. brilliant stuff

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