The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity … particular for China. Foreign direct investment has played a pivotal role in their economic growth and has major presence in …

The rise of China as an economic and political ?driver? of the global economy is likely to be one of the defining … global order that has held sway for over 60 years. As such, China is beginning to reshape the world, presaging a new phase of … globalization: a ?global-Asian era?. This new era is likely to be distinct from any of the earlier phases of globalization and China …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China?s banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through …

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 … distort both the rankings of countries according to the extent to which they face competition from China and the direction of …

This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …

of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … and favourable distributional changes can explain China?s remarkable achievement in combating poverty in rural areas in … the first half of the 1990s; (2) in the second half of the 1990s, both rural and urban China suffered from rapidly rising …

China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has …, mostly focus on real exchange rate and income as determinants of China?s trade imbalances. Little attention has been given to … literature by adding FDI to China?s trade balance model. Fitting aggregate annual data from 1979 to 2007 to SURE (Seemingly …

This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the inequality trends during the transitional period in China …. From 1978 to 1995, China has been undergoing 18 years far-reaching economic system reform and opening to the outside world …