appropriate data set for China.  The tests favour the early theories.  Implications are drawn. …

China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China ….  Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind.  Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …

there is strong son preference in rural China, we postulate two main hypotheses: income-based sex selection making it more …, this is the first study to test these hypotheses in rural China and more generally in developing countries. …

This paper provides micro-level evidence that drug advertising regulations and inspections in China are used by local … inherent in a partially reformed economy such as China. …

The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a … developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It … the question: can China's developmental state be sustained?  Conclusions are drawn for both China and other developing …

component.  We estimate that without International joint ventures China's growth would have been about one percentage point …

, China and South Africa, towards labour shortage and generally rising labour real incomes. In the acuteness of their rural …, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China - a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment …

, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that dramatically changed the state of employment in urban China. One factor in … urban China in early 2000. We find that there are gender differences in the stock of social capital and returns within the …

The paper uses an appropriate survey from rural China to answer the question: Is happiness infectious, i.e. does the …