two seldom compared cases: 19th-century America and 21st-century China. Both countries relied heavily on taxless financing …

China’s residential real estate sector plays an important role in the economy and has been a key driver of growth …

trajectories ; Russia ; China …

provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much …

Rapid economic development in China in the post-1978 era has been considered 'intriguing' and 'puzzling' since it … elite are motivated to promote economic development in China. It argues that like politicians in other types of political … regimes, autocratic leaders are interested in high growth rates. It also studies the historical development of China …

BBC (2007), the city is argued as the best candidate for China's global city (Ni 2008, Lin 2004, Wu and Yusuf 2004 … inevitably competing with other cities in China and Asia for the best brains in the world. This paper therefore aims to … Shanghai's competitiveness and trajectory to become China's global city. -- international migration ; global cities ; talents …

The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the … significant driver of growth. Energy and capital are also important factors promoting China's industrial growth. The substantial … productivity improvement of China's industry is attributable more to high-tech light industrial sectors. Heavy industry …

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. -- China ; elites ; cadre …