A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …

The enterprise reforms of the 1990s profoundly changed the structure of the economy in China. With the deepening of … the National Bureau of Statistics of China in 1998-2007 to examine the role of different firm characteristics in … volatility at the firm level in China. The results suggest that in general, productivity volatility at the firm level has …

requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely …-varying selectivity of privatizations and highlight the crucial role that state-owned enterprise privatizations played in China's economic …

This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …

This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 … globally by 0.6 percent relative to the past trends scenario by 2030. However, if China's transformation also entails …

Hong Kong SAR, China, and Macau SAR, China, and the second-nature advantages as first-movers in the reforms in attracting …

and opportunities for Latin America that come from China's rise, and draws lessons from New Structural Economics and the … to avoid further de-industrialization arising from the competitive pressures of the rise of China, broaden the base for …

emerging market countries such as China, India and Brazil are also engaged in industrial upgrading but with a critical … difference. In particular, because of its sheer size, China has absorbed nearly all labor-intensive jobs and become the world …?s largest exporter of labor-intensive products. The current view is that China?s dominance hinders poor countries from …