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Socio-economic Disintegration: Myth and Truth

In: Understanding China’s Growth

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  • Chi Lo

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China’s future is doomed, according to those who see its social, economic and political structures coming apart at the seams.1 Their logic is simple – China cannot, and does not know how to, handle its structural changes. This incompetence will manifest itself in rising unemployment, falling income growth and rampant corruption. Frustrated and deprived farmers and workers would be pulled together to rise against the state. Saddled with a huge financial burden from the bankrupted state-owned enterprises (SOEs), bad banks and a big fiscal black hole, the state would not be able to respond. Systemic disintegration would follow.

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  • Chi Lo, 2007. "Socio-economic Disintegration: Myth and Truth," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Understanding China’s Growth, chapter 5, pages 121-149, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59120-2_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230591202_6
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