Inter-regional disparities in China have been an important concern for central-government policy-makers for most of the …

This paper examines differences in the spatial and temporal variations of rice yields in China and Brazil. Our analysis … indicates that, in China, rice yields have converged over time and rice production has become increasingly homogeneous. In … explanations may account for the different behaviors of rice yields in Brazil and China, namely: 1) differences in production …

through the Sloping Land Conservation Program in China. The analysis is based on household survey data from Ningxia Autonomous … Region in China. From our questionnaire two trust factors are derived and distinguished, using factor analysis: general trust …

This paper analyzes why no foreign direct investment (FDI) has entered basic telecom services in China despite relaxed …

public hospitals in China. Using city-level data and a difference-in-difference (DID) model, this paper estimates the changes …

the effects of China's economic growth on its current account. The results showed that as China switches from exports to … domestic demand as a key driver for economic growth, China's trade surplus would be expected to shrink rather quickly. …

inequality in China, from 1978 to 2007. Fiscal decentralization is a multifaceted concept not likely to be captured by a single …, revenue decentralization, and autonomy power, and tests the effects of each aspect on the regional income inequality in China … decentralization on spending side in China has contributed to rising income inequality over the last three decades. On the revenue side …

Since China's transition to a market economy, the labour productivity growth has been dramatically rapid, in particular … since 1994. This speeding up has been accompanied by the reverse of the exchange rate policy of China, which has strongly …

We explore the relative positions of China and India in the international fragmentation of automobile production by … two countries; China is a net car importer, while India is a net car exporter. We find evidence of the increasing … importance of two-way trade in vertically differentiated goods, indicating that China and India are becoming more active …

We examine the wage trends of ordinary workers and the wage convergence between unskilled and skilled workers in China … converged. Both the increasing wage trends and wage convergence are interpreted as evidence supporting the hypothesis that China … economic growth in China requires an upgrading of labor market institutions to accommodate the merging of the rural and urban …