China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that … started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth … approaches have been proposed to deal with the emerging problems. One is to demand that China changes its economic regime. The …

China, from its own perspective cannot afford to, and from an international perspective, is not allowed to continue on … discusses China’s own efforts towards energy saving and pollutants cutting, the widespread use of renewable energy and … participation in clean development mechanism, and puts carbon reductions of China’s unilateral actions into perspective. Given that …

China is undergoing its long-awaited industrial revolution. There is no shortage of commentary and opinion on this … fundamental mechanisms behind China's rapid industrialization. This article reviews the New Stage Theory of economic development …, despite sharp differences in political and institutional conditions. One of the key conclusions exemplified by China …

Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an …, of the mechanism underlining China’s economic transition from an investment-driven, pollution-intensive to an investment … incorporated into China’s growth mechanism, then at some tipping point in time when marginal welfare gain of R&D for knowledge …

This paper compares different just transition pathways in China, the European Union and the United States of America by … measures and public participation. This paper is part of a series of FEEM working papers of comparison studies of China, the EU …

China's speedy industrialization has undertaken mostly a crude path with extensive energy consumption and severe … for the sustainable development of China's industry. With huge potentials and more general benefits than costs, the … industrial green transformation in China will have more positive effects and accelerate the whole process of the development of …

We propose a quantitative theory of wealth creation and distribution during China's transitional growth from the early … the model matches the rise in urban China’s wealth inequality since 1995 almost exactly. We further quantify the relative …