China’s accession to the WTO is one of the most important policy changes in China’s long process of liberalizing its foreign trade and foreign direct investment. It is also a major world economic event with profound repercussions. This book addresses the issues raised by China’s accession...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors of growth of a developing country such as China. Because of the existence of domestic distortions, the traditional approach of using the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) to represent economic growth of the economy is not appropriate. This...

World trade is not only an economic but also a social, political, environmental, labor and legal matter. Economists and government planners aim at finding the efficient trade policy which enhances economic welfare and growth in a more harmonious and sustainable way.This book contains 12 articles...