China's major competitors, South Korea and Japan, over the period from 2000 to 2009. First, we analyse principal factors …Cost has a significant impact on competitiveness within the shipbuilding industry. In China, low costs have created … favourable conditions for domestic shipyards competing in the international market. However, China's shipbuilders have been …

fundamental mechanisms behind China's rapid industrialization. This article reviews the New Stage Theory of economic development … the correct sequence of developmental stages; China has been successfully accomplishing its industrialization through …China is undergoing its long-awaited industrial revolution. There is no shortage of commentary and opinion on this …

With rapid industrial upgrading along the global value chain of manufactured goods, China has transformed, within one … the world. This article identifies the pattern of China's industrial upgrading and compares it with those of other … successfully industrialized economies and the failed ones. We find that (i) China (since 1978) followed essentially the same path …

representation which does not yet exist. For Vietnam the economic incentive for a trade agreement with the USA plus problems in its …