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The World Turned Upside Down : the Complex Partnership Between China and Latin America.

Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.2 billion Indians into the world's labour equation within a context of lower production costs. This resulted in erosion of its competitive capacity and social stability, while greatly benefiting developing e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardy, Alfredo Toro
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Series on contemporary China.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword by Geoffrey Hawthorn; Foreword by Xulio Ríos; Foreword by L. Enrique García; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Endnotes; Chapter 1 Emerging China; Shareholder capitalism versus stakeholder capitalism; The Washington Consensus; The GATT Uruguay Round; The pendulum starts swinging back; The Asian crisis; The Beijing Consensus; The Singapore model; China and the developing world; The Lewis turning point; China's ruder; Chapter 2 A Declining West; Mighty Chiindia; The Indian model; A multicultural globalisation; The Global South and shareholder capitalism.
  • The West: An embattled fortressThe United States lagging behind; Obama's response to a rising China; 2008: The American decline; The Euro zone's nightmare; Timing incompatibility and incompatible objectives; Japan's three "D"s; The West's lonely band; Decoupling; Chapter 3 A Dragon in Latin Lands; The dragon that appeared from nowhere; What is Latin America?; Latin America plus the Caribbean; The import-substituting industrialisation process; Flaws, results and implosion; Opening of the gates; China's redeeming virtue; Mexican-type economies; Brazilian-type economies.
  • China's investments and loansThe in between economies; Commodities: Curse or development opportunity?; Chapter 4 Is There a Future for Latin America?; Between China's torch and technology's Damocles sword; Where does Latin America go from here?; Commodities exporters' first steps; The Belindia syndrome; Services: The new exports frontier; Global chains of value; Infrastructural development; Sovereign wealth funds; White paper and negotiations; Conclusion; Bibliography; About the Author; Index.