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 …

The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

Drawing on a global database of media articles, we quantitatively assess perceptions of China’s Belt and Road …

This paper introduces and critically analyzes an emerging form of global infrastructure development by China …