Decoupling strategy

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The decoupling strategy is a development strategy based on an auto-centered and independent development. This requires a separation (decoupling) of the developing country from the world market.

The model here is the Chinese development path under Mao Zedong ("auto-centered development") , which aimed to build an independent economy and society based on its own needs and resources. In the era of Mao Zedong, the People's Republic of China managed to build up a basic industry that enabled the basis for further developments, in particular the establishment of a manufacturing industry. However, Mao Zedong's plan was associated with great sacrifices for the Chinese people, including famine-like conditions, since the plan was carried out rigorously. After suffering several years of hardship and after taking adjustment measures under Mao himself and his successor Deng Xiaoping , China managed to break away from the remaining underdevelopment and transition to an emerging industrial state. However, some necessary reforms, in particular to provide structural support to the rural population, remained necessary well after Deng Xiaoping's government phase. However, this does not change the course and the success, albeit a late one, of the temporary decoupling of China from the world economy and the treading of a special path that has lasted several decades.

Implementing the decoupling strategy is generally considered to be difficult, since the IMF and World Bank have set up high hurdles against decoupling projects by developing countries , furthermore the developing countries are equipped with different resources and their internal market sizes are often barely sufficient for decoupling.

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