China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … the economy resilient to large shocks, ensure the sustainability of its growth, and translate this growth into … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable political-economic system than many … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …