This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low … one form or the other, these distortions have implied significant transfers from households to firms. If China is to …

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

China. We also find that corruption strongly reduces tax revenue. Looking at things from an expenditure point of view we … observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also … that the pollution haven hypothesis may not hold in China. This finding sheds a new light on the “China puzzle” that China …

Recent growth in carbon dioxide emissions from China's energy sector has exceeded expectations. In a major US … near-term rate of increase in China's emissions. We present a recalibration of one of those models to be consistent with … profound. Unless China's emissions begin to depart soon from their (newly projected) business-as-usual path, stringent …

This paper deals with some structural indicators and their evolution, in China and regions, over the period 1981 …