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started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth …China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that … approaches have been proposed to deal with the emerging problems. One is to demand that China changes its economic regime. The …
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We investigate the impact of differences in privatisation method on national economic performance in transition economies. Our approach is to estimate, using dynamic panel data methods, a growth equation over 23 countries for the period 1990-2001. Among our results, we find that mass...
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both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China's energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving … reforms for coal, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity and renewable power in China, and provides some analysis of … these energy price reforms, in order to have the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and help China …
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The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in … energy use and in energy supply and to assess the possible contribution of China and India to a future international climate … emissions by 50% in 2050. -- Climate Change ; China ; India ; Energy Efficiency ; Energy and Development …
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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a … complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based …
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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 …
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This paper discusses the most important theoretical contributions to the literature on privatization, focusing on … emerging economies, and gives a summary on recent research concerning the ways privatization might affect the development of … privatization and the reduction in social welfare and the possibility that the privatization process itself may have conflicting …
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This paper examines the restructuring of state assets in markets deregulated by privatizations and investment liberalizations. We show that the government has a stronger incentive to restructure than the buyer: A firm restructuring only takes into account how much its own profit will increase....
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This paper aims to examine the impacts of oil-price shocks on China's price levels. To that end, we develop a partial …-through mechanism during oil-price shocks. Using the models of both China and the U.S., we separate the impact of price control from … those of other factors leading to China's price stickiness under oil-price shocks. The results show a sharp contrast between …
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Over a quarter of the world's population lives in economies that have undertaken transitions from central planning to market economies. These transitions entail far-reaching and complex changes in social, economic and political institutions and have had widely divergent outcomes. Important...
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