This essay has explored the validity of Marxist dependency theories in the context of the emerging China-Africa trade … patterns, this discussion has shown that the China-Africa economic links represent a distinct south-south dialectic occurring … the idea that China’s involvement in Africa is of a conventional center-periphery type; which suggests the existence of …

production of vehicles in China and in East Asia is adding dynamism to the market and provoking strategy changes, and (iii) the … subcontractors. These new tendencies that include productive globalization, China and the new production chains require the …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …

China from the extraordinary into the mundane. Systematic understatement of inflation by enterprises accounts for 2 …

China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …

This paper has two aims. The first is to reduce the range within which the true U.S.-China bilateral trade deficit lies … revised US-China bilateral trade deficit is $15 billion to $20 billion in 1994, and $16 billion to $22 billion in 1995 … US-CHINA bilateral trade deficit in recent years reflected many factors. In our opinion, the two chief factors are (i …

This paper analyzes the relative importance of the major factors underlying the post-1978 increase in China …

China's national accounts are based on data collected by local governments. However, since local governments are … rewarded for meeting growth and investment targets, they have an incentive to skew local statistics. China's National Bureau of …