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 …

by the incumbent poor. The decomposition is applied to appraising poverty trends in China between 1988 and 1996. 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 …

Applying the Shapley decomposition to unit-record household survey data, this paper investigates the trends and causes … of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … and favourable distributional changes can explain China?s remarkable achievement in combating poverty in rural areas in …

inland than in coastal China. The empirical application requires household or individual income observations which, generally … observations from grouped income data. It is found that inland China is poorer than coastal China, mainly due to lower efficiency … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …