normal trade relations (PNTR) to China and China's anticipated membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the American … business community is apt to find more opportunity for investment in China. American investors are likely to be increasingly … their assets. The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the corporate governance system in China and offer some …

We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China’s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

We study China's township-village enterprises (TVES) from an organizational perspective with a focus on governance …

during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus … budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by …

constraints in the enterprise sector in China and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union (CEEFSU). The paper finds that: (1) in both CEEFSU countries and China, budgetary subsidies have fallen as prices have … both CEEFSU countries and China typically impose hard budget constraints on each other; levels of trade credit in China …