This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor. It … driving China's growth.While other books on China do not focus much on China's integration into the world economy, this book … provides technically strong analyses of key contributing factors to China's growth performance. It also highlights innovation …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …

We document the sharp expansion of higher education in China beginning in 1999 and analyze its impacts on the …-in-difference strategy, we find that China's expansion policy has sharply increased the unemployment rate among young college graduates, and …

In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …

In this paper, we discuss monetary thought in ancient China from the perspective of Western monetary theory. We set out … the structure of economic activity in the various dynasties of ancient China and emphasize the differences in monetary … structure from those of Europe and later North America. Imperial China was a politically integrated structure with regional …

difficult to identify the mechanism by which the more pro-business policies of the government were translated to higher growth … services grew as rapidly in India as in China, so that it cannot be said that growth in India was based more on domestic demand …

The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different … goods and services and of gross fixed capital formation. Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India … for most of these indicators. For instance, China has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a …