Introduction -- Developmental states : a conceptual overview -- Singapore Inc. -- Hong Kong : administrative developmental state -- Becoming smart cities -- Conceptual and theoretical implications -- The smart developmental state

"This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to...

The end of slavery, famine and food aid in Tunduru -- Changing configurations of poverty in the colonial southeast and the myth of communalism -- The struggle to trade -- Independence and the rhetoric of feasibility -- Villagisation and the pursuit of market access -- The politics of development...