Terrain ruggedness and limits of political repression: Evidence from China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (1959-61)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2019.08.001
Abstract: Abstract Chairman Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward development plan strongly affected food security in rural China at the time, given that many of the associated policies exploited rural labor and extracted resources. A few months… read more here.
Keywords: plan; leap forward; great leap; terrain ruggedness ... See more keywords