The China Miracle in a technological and socio-political framework-The role of institutions

China's economy has grown at an average annual rate of around 9.5% in the past four decades, which is often hailed as the China Miracle. This paper proposes a new theoretical model to analyse the causes of China's phenomenal growth in a technological and socio-political framework. In our n...

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Published inJournal of Chinese economic and business studies Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 253 - 272
Main Author Ma, Qing-Ping
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.07.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Beijing Consensus
China model
Economic growth
Economic stabilization
Growth rate
Institutions
Political change
social objective
social stability
technological path
Technology
transaction cost
China
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Summary:China's economy has grown at an average annual rate of around 9.5% in the past four decades, which is often hailed as the China Miracle. This paper proposes a new theoretical model to analyse the causes of China's phenomenal growth in a technological and socio-political framework. In our new framework, the contemporary technology (T) determines what an economy can achieve; the objective (O) of the society has a fundamental impact on its economic growth; the performance (P) in implementing the social objective largely determines the growth rate of the economy; and the stability (S) of the society determines the sustainability of the economic growth. China's institutions have played key roles in the TOPS framework to initiate and sustain China's rapid growth in the past four decades. Socio-political changes caused by economic growth might affect the capacity of these institutions to promote economic growth in future.
ISSN:1476-5284
1476-5292
DOI:10.1080/14765284.2020.1823146