Mao's terrorisation of the Chinese population in the Cultural Revolution did not create the conditions for China's economic take-off in the late 1970s.
Even so, seen through the eyes of the middle class, recent times compare favourably with the period of economic take-off in the 1960s.
He has scored 100 international centuries 29 more than the Australian Ricky Ponting.Cricket reflects India's economic take-offHe symbolises another sort of national success, too.
"The Amazon, 130 years after electricity was first used in Peru, will have clean energy to power its economic take-off," MINEM reported Quintanilla saying.
"Resource-rich cities have made tremendous contributions to China's economic take-off," says an NDRC official, "but the sacrifice they made is also huge".New dogs and new tricksThe planners need these cities to attract new industries.
It is moving, slowly, toward social justice; not least—for all the inequalities that are heightened in the process because it has moved quite fast toward economic take-off.
That is why we must continue to support Russian reform, even indeed, especially in that country's current "time of troubles".It is worth recalling that less than a year ago, Russia seemed to be poised for an economic take-off.
Student demands for political change have been rare since then, thanks largely to an improvement in career prospects brought about by the economic take-off and the freeing of state controls.
Local firms also moan about having to meet the complex logistical demands of foreign customers in a country where such costs are typically 15% higher than in the West, according to Jürgen Kracht at Fiducia, a consultancy.Mr Lehmann says the Chinese focus on high-volume, low-cost manufacturing has worked well in the initial phase of the country's economic take-off.
Increased parliamentary control over the executive and a "credible commitment" to pay back the public debt encouraged public and private investment which, they say, produced sustainable growth.Europe's wider economic "take-off" in the nineteenth century can be seen in a similar light.
