Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent …

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …

. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … step forward occurring following Deng Xiaoping's "South Trip" in 1992. We find that FDI had much larger effect on TFP … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …

(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to …

quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …. -- product cycle ; ownership structure ; contract environment ; export variety ; processing trade ; China …