products, aggravating environmental damage. China's rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation appear to be no … exception. However, much of China's trade growth is attributable to the international fragmentation of production. This kind of … trade could be cleaner, if fragmented production occurs in cleaner goods, or if China specializes in cleaner stages of …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

residuals are large enough to be viewed as indicators of involuntary' accumulation of excess reserves. Results for Thailand …