China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

The world's two population giants (China and India) have undergone significant, and significantly different …-working-aged. Although much of China's demographic dividend now lies in the past, alternative assumptions about future trends in fertility … and labor force participation rates are used to demonstrate that China will not necessarily enter a period of “demographic …