This paper examines how changes in China's trade environment contributed to the rise in private firm exports. Data from …

China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

Trade statistics portray China as the largest exporter of high-tech products. This paper demonstrates that China … China, thus greatly inflating its exports. This paper adopted a value-added approach to more accurately measure high …-tech exports, revealing that, in 2009, China's value-added accounted for only about 3 percent of the total value attributed for its …

Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past 35 years, poverty has not been fully eradicated in … challenges and achievements of pro-poor programs in China. Using original household survey data, we first highlight the fairly …

This report identifies a set of policy lessons for China today drawn from the experience of financial deregulation … exercise. Based on the Scandinavian experience and the added complexity of China's status as a transition economy, financial …

The world's two population giants (China and India) have undergone significant, and significantly different …-working-aged. Although much of China's demographic dividend now lies in the past, alternative assumptions about future trends in fertility … and labor force participation rates are used to demonstrate that China will not necessarily enter a period of “demographic …