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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 23, 2009
Community Development Journal 2009 44(3):415-419; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsp030
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The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India

R. Ramakumar

Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

email: rr@tiss.edu

Edited by Ashok Gulati and Shenggen Fan, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007, 576 pp, ISBN 978-0-8018-8786-4, $75 (harcover), ISBN 978-0-8018-8787-1, $38 (paperback); for South Asian customers, also available in hardcover from Oxford University Press-India

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In the last few years, there has been a flurry of books and papers referring to China and India – the two ‘emerging economies’ – as the Dragon and the Elephant respectively. The edited book under review is one of the latest in the Dragon-Elephant series, and it attempts to apply the above comparative implication to the agricultural sectors in these two countries.

The preface begins with the statement that between 1978 and 2005, China's per capita income overtook India's at such a rapid pace that it was double that of India's in 2005. This transformation is attributed to ‘a quarter of a century of reforms’. After 1978, China is argued to have reformed its agriculture by moving into the household responsibility system in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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