Les recherches de Yuen Yuen Ang explorent le développement comme un processus non linéaire et adaptatif, la Chine servant d'étude de cas principale. Elle remet en question l'idée d'un standard institutionnel universellement supérieur, démontrant que des institutions apparemment faibles peuvent être remarquablement efficaces. Son travail offre une perspective nuancée sur la manière dont les nations progressent, soulignant la nature souvent imprévisible et spécifique au contexte du développement.
By unbundling corruption into four distinct categories, Ang shows that the type of corruption that dominates in China - 'access money' (elite exchanges of power and profit) - perversely stimulates investment and growth while producing serious risks for the economy and political system.
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap offers the most complete synthesis to date of the numerous interacting forces that have shaped China's dramatic makeover and the problems it faces today. --Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of Kicking Away the Ladder and Economics "The World Bank"