Chinese input-output tables and data on Chinese energy consumption for 1995 and 2005 have been used to investigate the link between China's spectacular trade performance and its environmental impact. The results suggest that although China's ever increasing trade surplus is contributing to...

The proposition that liberalization improves productivity growth is examined using data from Nepalese manufacturing-a least developed country that implemented trade liberalization during the 1980s. Productivity growth in general was negative in both the preand post-liberalization periods, but a...