We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …