Abstract
Relatively few Third World countries have attempted to introduce rapid and profound structural changes of the type with which we are concerned. Three which have are Chile, Cuba and China. For this reason alone their experience is of great interest. Our interest is increased, however, because their experience is so varied. Indeed, they can be regarded as having occupied three distinct points on a continuum. At one extreme is Chile, where the failure to cope with the problems of transition was almost total and the result was a disaster. At the other extreme is China, which successfully combined supply and demand management measures and overcame most of the major problems in her transition to egalitarian development. Somewhere in between is Cuba, a country which was only partially successful in the early years but ultimately learned how to cope with her disequilibrium system.
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Notes and References
Markos Mamalakis, The Growth and Structure of the Chilean Economy: From Independence to Allende (Yale University Press, 1976) p. 119.
Alec Nove, ‘The Political Economy of the Allende Regime’, in Philip O’Brien (ed.) Allende’s Chile (Praeger, 1976 ) p. 75.
David Lehmann, ‘The Political Economy of Armageddon: Chile, 1970–1973’, Journal of Development Economics, June 1978.
See W. B. Reddaway, ‘Rationing’, in National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Lessons of the British War Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1951 ).
See A. R. Khan, ‘The Distribution of Income in Rural China’, in ILO, Poverty and Landlessness in Rural Asia (Geneva, 1977 ).
See Nai-Ruenn Chen and Walter Galenson, The Chinese Economy Under Communism (Edinburgh University Press, 1969).
T. J. Hughes and D. E. T. Luard, The Economic Development of Communist China, 1949–58 ( Oxford University Press, 1959 ) Chapter xv.
Ralph W. Huenemann, ‘Urban Rationing in Communist China’, China Quarterly, April-June 1966.
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Griffin, K., James, J. (1981). The Contemporary Experience of Chile, Cuba and China. In: The Transition to Egalitarian Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05914-0_7
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