Using adata fundamentalist approach,ʺ this study revisits the long debate about Chinas growth performance by seriously tackling the existing data problems that have been the major obstacles to a proper assessment of Chinas growth performance. First, this study examines and adjusts the serious...

In the decade leading to the recent commodity boom, which peaked in 2007-08, several resource-rich, low-income countries displayed high rates of gross domestic product (GDP) growth while social indicators did not improve significantly. It is well known that, in itself, the widely tracked GDP may...

In the decade leading to the recent commodity boom, which peaked in 2007-08, several resource-rich, low-income countries displayed high rates of gross domestic product (GDP) growth while social indicators did not improve significantly. It is well known that, in itself, the widely tracked GDP may...