China's contained resource curse: how minerals shape state-capital-labor relations

As a country rich in mineral resources, contemporary China remains surprisingly overlooked in the research about the much debated 'resource curse'. This is the first full-length study to examine the distinctive effects of mineral resources on the state, capital and labour and their interre...

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Main Author: Zhan, Jing Vivian 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
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Summary:As a country rich in mineral resources, contemporary China remains surprisingly overlooked in the research about the much debated 'resource curse'. This is the first full-length study to examine the distinctive effects of mineral resources on the state, capital and labour and their interrelations in China. Jing Vivian Zhan draws on a wealth of empirical evidence, both qualitative and quantitative. Taking a subnational approach, she zooms in on local situations and demonstrates how mineral resources affect local governance and economic as well as human development. Characterizing mining industries as pro-capital and anti-labour, this study also highlights the redistributive roles that the state can play to redress the imbalance. It reveals the Chinese state's strategies to contain the resource curse and also pinpoints some pitfalls of the China model, which offer important policy implications for China and other resource-rich countries
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Minerals and the state-capital-labor triad -- Minerals, capital, and local economic development -- Resource extraction and victimization of labor -- Resources and local state capture -- Resources and local public goods provision -- Coping with the resource curse
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 221 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009049757
DOI:10.1017/9781009049757

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