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This study examines the relevance of trade facilitation reforms in maximizing the economic impactof infrastructure connectivity investments through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It providesan overview of trade facilitation performance in BRI economies, with a focus on those...
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The six land corridors that are the 'Belt' part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) connect more than sixty countries. As the initiative progresses, policy makers, analysts and researchers are trying to answer a few open questions of which the most common are: How can a country best benefit...
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China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) includes major infrastructure investment projects - roads, ports, railways … procurement regimes of BRI countries, including China, both as embedded in domestic regulations and in international agreements …
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This paper examines the level of investment protection for selected countries along the Belt andRoad Initiative (BRI), based on coding the textual content of 17 investment laws and 648international investment agreements (IIAs). We find substantial heterogeneity in the levels ofprotection...
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that the share of SOEs in China's GDP should be twenty-three to twenty-eight percent and their share in employment can be …
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China considers innovation be one of the key drivers of its future growth and convergence with more developed countries … technological catch- up, China must revise its approach to innovation policy. This paper takes stock of China's progress in building … recommendations to help China sustain its drive to become one of the global innovation champions …
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The objective of this working paper is to: (i) document China's business environment reform experience over the past … the remaining opportunities for business environment reforms; and (iv) share lessons learned from China's experience with …
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This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past...
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This paper sketches a macroeconomic scenario for China for 2010-20. Growth accounting exercise finds that, with both … economic growth in China would support imports. Meanwhile, given the outlook for the world economy, the share of exports in GDP … China's economy. Even so, the external surplus will continue to rise in US dollar terms, especially the current account. In …
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Capitalizing on the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions in China and in other countries, this paper … assesses the economic and poverty impact of global and domestic trade reform in China. It also examines the interplay between … household groups in China …
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