third national industrial censuses. It is found that many of China's manufacturing industries were highly geographically … production function estimation and further regressions suggest that the industrial agglomeration in China is driven by both …

Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper … econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China …

Opinion over the global implications of China‘s rise is divided between critics, who see it as having developed at the … of trade and reductions to the cost of financing that stem from China‘s supply of light manufactures, its demand for … the US and Europe from China‘s successful export-oriented growth, though there are partially offsetting Keynesian effects …

the evolving situations in China and the United States. The most significant effects on governance are the needs to shift … China and the United States facilitate and/or hinder efforts to effectively manage ecosystem services?; and (ii) are there … adjustments that are both politically feasible and likely to make a difference in these terms? We conclude that while China and …

The time has come (is arguably long overdue) to develop a new basis for the World Bank's work in China. For nearly two … decades, the Bank and China have been engaged in a mutual game of ‘let's pretend’, because the annual increments to China …'s foreign exchange reserves have been larger than the Bank's annual loans to China since about 1994. Now China's national income …

This paper is motivated by the popular view that the surge in China’s foreign exchange reserves is due to a … the reserve build-up in China during 1998Q4-2011Q4. A substantial problem is that theory is consistent with employing two … in China’s case. The results suggest that mercantilism accounts for less than 10 percent of reserve accumulation …