capita stock of unexploded ordinance, a legacy of the Indo China war. It has yet to recover from the loss of most of its …

In this paper, we aim to understand how monetary policy is conducted in China and what the main sources of fluctuations … in China’s business cycle are. To this end, we extend a standard New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium … rule and employ a Bayesian estimation strategy using Chinese data. We find that the People’s Bank of China conducts …

This paper is motivated by the popular view that the surge in China’s foreign exchange reserves is due to a … the reserve build-up in China during 1998Q4-2011Q4. A substantial problem is that theory is consistent with employing two … in China’s case. The results suggest that mercantilism accounts for less than 10 percent of reserve accumulation …

This paper examines the effectiveness of China's indigenous R&D investment and technological innovation to curb its … that: 1) While China's indigenous R&D efforts play a significant role to curb carbon emissions, sole dependence on R&D may … be far from sufficient to achieve China's pledged Copenhagen climate target with complementary policies being required to …

The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social …

China is currently the world's largest single source of fossil fuel related CO2 emissions. In response to pressure from … of China's recent commitments to reduce emissions intensity, and highlight the complexities involved in modelling …, we show that China's emissions intensity targets could be achieved with a range of low and high growth emissions level …

This paper examines the export experience of China and other East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global …

. China has multiple objectives to develop a low carbon economy and to decrease carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP … protection, poverty alleviation, employment and natural conservation). In this regard, China's actions are more at the active … side than from a pressure outside. However, there are some suspicions in the international society about whether China has …