This staff report on People’s Republic of China 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights macroeconomic developments … and outlook. China has maintained robust growth since the global crisis, but the heavy reliance on credit and investment …

towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …

Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

The three China Seas (the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea) are all enclosed or semi … area is left unclaimed. China has maritime jurisdictional disputes with other coastal states bordering on the China Seas … paper outlines three options for the settlement of maritime jurisdictional disputes in the three China Seas. …

. The overall objective of the paper is to describe the current agricultural situation in North Korea, South Korea, China …