This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector …, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …

We use firm-level data to identify financial frictions in China and explore the extent to which they can explain firms …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …

, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … of rapid and significant aging requiring major fiscal adjustments.In previous studies that excluded China we predicted …, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction. Even though China …

Motivated by growing concerns about the risks and instability of China's financial system, this article reviews several … commonly perceived financial risks and discusses their roots in China's politico-economic institutions. We emphasize the need … to evaluate these risks within China's unique economic and financial systems, in which the state and non-state sectors …

relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …

Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …

substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly … discontinuities account for a large fraction of the variation in growth rates. We suggest that salient characteristics of China …