China?s economic miracle over the past three decades has been featured with its open-door policy, especially the … regional growth differences in China. However, it suggests that FDI cannot be blamed for causing regional inequality; it is the …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China?s banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through …

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite … probability of becoming an economic elite is linked to the age of the head of household and to the income level of the county …