entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate substantially exceeded China's population growth, which averaged 1.4 percent … annually between 1978 and 2009, and real GDP per capita accordingly grew at 8.6 percent annually during this period. China … larger administrative units called cities (shi) and respectively towns (zhen). Cities and towns in China are expansive …

of 'globalization.' Ravallion views the issue through both 'macro' and 'micro' empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … modeling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …

associated with an increased demand for skilled labor, the opposite is true in China. This paper 'a product of the Growth and … Investment Team, Development Research Group' is part of a larger effort in the group to study the links between globalization and …