...happiness, Ben Fielding?" "It sure as heck beats the alternative." "Your Deng said, 'It does not matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.'" "He wasn't my Deng," Ben said. "And what's with the cat?" "He referred to a market economy in contrast...

...drag China out of backwardness, summed up by Deng's oft-repeated aphorism that 'it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice'. Thus, even aspects of out-and-out capitalism could be adopted if they achieved the rights results for...

...householders who formed a work team. In the words of a fellow reformer, Deng Xiaoping, 'It does not matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.' In other words, in addressing the famine, ideology was not the highest priority. (Deng was to revive...

...fundamental 3. This pragmatism is reflected in Deng Xiaoping's famous remark, "It does not matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." economic shock to all the countries in the region—something that China did not have to face in its...

...the Jesuit slogan, "the end justifies the means" or, as stated by chairman Mao, "It is the same if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice". Many organizations have taken action to improve their ethical performance. Some of them have ethical...

...predictable manner. 2. Deng Xiaoping, commenting on the nature of socialism, once said that it does not matter "whether the cat is black or white; as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat." 3. Social capital here is defined as a "set of resources rooted in...

...the last ten years. Even the farmers. Even the displaced farmers. So, overall goals are being met. 'It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.' I read about the real estate bubble and the Asian Financial Crisis and then see one Pudong Park development...

...South Asia for nearly two decades. Following Deng Xiaoping who famously asserted that "it does not matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice," the Chinese built an incentive-compatible system that delivered quick results rather than lingering...

...the I989 student protests, he was a pragmatist at heart, well-known for saying: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Indeed, qigong seemed to be doing well at "catching mice": in addition to its' estimated 60 million...

...ignore, despite slogans and campaigns legitimizing the new plan, the most famous of which is Deng's "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice." While the successes of the Open Policy and economic reform are obvious, particularly in the South,...