In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … quality of life in China's cities. We focus on the interaction between firms, local governments and the central government … that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …

What are the incentives faced by local officials in China? Without democratic institutions, there is no mechanism for … successes and the problems arising from local government activity in China …

China's four-trillion-yuan stimulus package fueled by bank loans in 2009 has led to the rapid growth of shadow banking …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …