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 …

The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical …

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 …

Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

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 …

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …