Large Countries? Development Path: Experience and Theory

This book aims to propose a unique analytical framework to find out the general successful experience for large developing countries, which are defined with two main physical characters of large population and vast land. They are naturally crucial for the global development.  Thirteen countries are chosen as large developing countries in this book, which are China, India, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Congo (DRC). On the basis of selecting massive data, the author analyzes the performance of large countries in terms of human resources, natural resources, market size and other factors. The book conducts the comparative study of large countries’ latecomer strength, transformation path and innovation strategy with the perspective of development economics.  It presents a comprehensive overview about large developing countries

Yao Ouyang, vice president of Hunan Normal University, is the director of the committee for scientific research and discipline development and the director of Large Country Economy Research Center. He is a professor and a doctoral supervisor.

Professor Ouyang got his master’s degree in philosophy from Renmin University of China and his doctorate in economics from Hunan University. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Fiscal Science Institute of the Ministry of Finance, and also worked as a senior research scholar at Department of Economics of Harvard University, China Center of Oxford University, and Economic Policy Institute of Stanford Universality. Professor Ouyang is an evaluation expert of Economic Discipline of the National Social Science Foundation, a member of Economics Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, the principal of theoretical economics as the national first-class cultivation discipline, the person in charge of the doctoral program of theoretical economics, one of the first-level disciplines in China.

Professor Ouyang was elected President of the 19th International Schumpeter Society, Vice President of Chinese Business Economics Society, and Vice President of Chinese Emerging Economics Research Association. He is granted the state council government special allowance and selected as a state-level member of “millions of talents project” in the new century. He is also a National Culture Master, Four-Group Talent, and belongs to the first group of philosophy and social science leading talents of the national “Ten Thousand People Plan”.

Professor Ouyang’s research mainly focuses on development economics, international economics and Chinese economic history,. He had made a groundbreaking contribution in the field of development economics of great powers. 

Professor Ouyang presided over 3 major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, 3 major projects of the National SoftScience Research Program and 1 International European Union Fund Project. He has published more than 130 papers in Chinese Social Science, Economic Research and some other important journals. He is also the chief editor of Great Power Economics Series, National Scale and Economic Growth Translation Series, and Great Power Development Economics Series. His representative works Theory of Large Country Economic Development and Large Countries’ Development Path: Experience and Theory were selected into “National Achievements Library of Philosophy and Social Sciences”. The English version of his Development of BRIC and the Large Country Advantage was selected into “Classic China International Publishing Project” and was published by Springer Publishing Company in 2016. The English version of his Growth and Transformation of Emerging Powers was included in “China Book Foreign Promotion Program” and was published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 2019.

Professor Ouyang won the World Political Economics Outstanding Achievement Award once, An Zijie International Trade Research Award once, First Prize of Excellent Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences of China once.