because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China.  To quantify these costs we develop a general …

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 …

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

A specially designed household survey for rural China is used to analyse the determinants of aspirations for income … existence of a partial hedonic treadmill, and can help to explain why subjective well-being in China appears not to have risen …

The paper examines the contentious issue of the extent of surplus labour that remains in China.  China was an extreme …

China has had a remarkably high ratio of investment to output throughout the period of economic reform, surpassing … determinant of China's high rate of economic growth.  This survey paper gathers together the available evidence to explain why …