What do China and India have in common and where do they differ in their pathways to economic and social development over the last two decades? This volume examines each country in paired chapters covering social and environmental impacts, economic development, labour and demography.

Edited by Delia Davin, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, and Barbara Harriss-White, Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, Oxford UniversityContributors: Peter J Buckley, OBE, is Professor of International Business and Founder Director of the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds.Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Delia Davin FBA is emeritus professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds. John Harriss is Professor, and Director, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouve).Barbara Harriss-White FBA is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University, former Director of Queen Elizabeth House and founder director of Oxford's Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme.Patricia Jeffery is Professor of Sociology at University of Edinburgh.Craig Jeffrey is Professor of Development Geography at the School ofGeography and the Environment, Oxford University and a Fellow of St.John's College, Oxford. Vijay Joshi is an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Devesh Kapur is Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India and Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. Li Minqi is Associate Professor of Economics at University of Utah. Ravi Rajan is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, on sabbatical from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, and Visiting Professor at TERI University. Carl Riskin is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.Kunal Sen is Professor of Development Economics in the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IDPM), and an Associate Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester, UK. Dorothy J. Solinger is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine