China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide … domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import raw materials. In order to satisfy its needs, China has …

This paper draws on both successful and failing cases of industrialization in China to analyse the role of local …

promote industrialization and development. There is nothing, however, in the conventional theory of international trade that … guarantees that these gains will materialize and even if they do, they may not accelerate industrialization and growth. This is … growth. When the costs of free trade outweigh its benefits, the slowdown of industrialization and development are the likely …

distort both the rankings of countries according to the extent to which they face competition from China and the direction of … been used to estimate the threat from China in these studies. Two alternative indices, the static and the dynamic index of …. It is shown that the latter tend to underestimate the extent to which countries are threatened by China. They also …