China's engagement in the so-called international fragmentation of production - namely cross-border dispersion of component production/assembly within vertically integrated manufacturing industries - has become an increasingly important form of its economic integration into the regional as well...

The study decomposes the sources of Chinese growth by first making a distinction between technological progress and technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a series of reform programmes, such as urbanization, structural change, privatization, liberalization,...