Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …

This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China's recent rapid economic growth using a two … Chinese economy. These enterprises account for over 50% of China's exports and 60% of China's imports. Their share in Chinese … results indicate that China's FIEs may have contributed over 40% of China's economic growth in 2003 and 2004, and without this …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North-China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

Given the rapidly growing reserves in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and the pressures from trading partners to …, and that changes in trade flows can be substantial. Different treatments of China's processing trade have small impact on … changes in China's trade flow under RMB appreciation, but significant impacts on the change in the surplus. Results are …

China's VAT while seemingly conventional has two major impurities. One is that a separate export rebate system exists … reduced surplus is welfare improving. Using 2002 data, we thus find that China's impure VAT system yields welfare gains in … outside China for changes to be made and move closer to a pure VAT. Our results suggest that unless there are wider changes …

Currently proposals are actively circulating in China to move to a unified enterprise tax structure with similar tax …