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 …

This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on …

Consumption in China is unusually low and has continued to decline as a share of GDP over the past decade. A key policy …

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …. Across China’s provinces, divergences in per capita incomes are driven by the relative level of capital-intensity, public …

labor productivity in the rest of the economy and services has widened across China's provinces as they have moved from low … than in the rest of the economy. Reducing these frictions is essential for achieving the next stage of China's development …This paper studies structural changes underlying China's remarkable and unprecedented growth in recent years. While …

labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China …

This paper investigates the empirical characteristics of income inequality in China and a panel of BRIC+ countries over …€”an inverted Ushaped relationship between income inequality and economic development—in China and the panel of BRIC+ countries …. In the case of China, the empirical results indicate that government spending and taxation have opposing effects on …