Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the … over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …

that is lower than that of other countries ranges from 2-15%, with Japan having the tightest standard and the United States … and China the loosest. The fraction of grants that are inconsistent with the office's own standard ranges from 2-6 per …

prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

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'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 …

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 …

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

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 …

competitive firms. The results in our paper suggest that when it comes to TFP growth, this view of Japan is seriously erroneous …. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period … productivity growth. Our findings on Japan suggest that the salutary impact of imports stems more from their contribution to …

, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …