examine the determinants of enforcement in China. More precisely, they analyze the determinants of firms' relative bargaining …

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan … get a telephone line, sales lost to power outages). For many of these costs, the obstacles are lower in China than in the … for investment and production. This paper helps explain why China has been so successful over the past decade, both in …

China has been the most successful developing country in this modern era of globalization. Since initiating economic … any, lessons they can take from China. This paper focuses on four features of modern China that have changed significantly … trade and direct investment. A third lesson is the development of high-quality infrastructure: China's good roads, reliable …

bounded discrete choice study conducted in Chongqing, China. In this case, domestic water service quality was seriously …

opportunities. China itself faces new challenges that could hamper its further development: unsustainable trade imbalance with the … tension. To address the first two of these challenges, good cooperation between China and the United States is essential. The …The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …

equity joint venture (EJV) projects in China. They derive a location choice model from a theoretical framework that … ventures in highly-polluting industries with partners from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (China). In contrast, joint ventures …

China in the past few years has emerged as a net foreign creditor on the international scene with net foreign assets … slightly greater than zero percent of wealth. This is surprising given that China is a relatively poor country with a capital … whether it makes economic sense for China to be a net creditor and how they see China's net foreign asset position evolving …

China-state-owned (SOE), collectively- or community-owned (COE), privately owned (POE), companies with foreign direct … investment (FDI), and joint ventures. About 1,000 industrial firms in three provinces of China were surveyed, and detailed 1999 … enterprises in China are the worst performers. The results also suggest that collectively-owned enterprises in China do …

government leaders were conducted in three provinces of China. The statistical results show that: a) The environmental … performance of upper-level governments in China strongly and positively influences the environmental efforts of the township …