This article examines the factors behind China's rapid growth of foreign trade during the reform era, and the main challenges in this area for the future. It finds that trade growth has been at a spectacular rate of over 15 per cent a year, and that the trade pattern has moved steadily in the...

Malaysia is a multiethnic, upper-middle-income country that has relied heavily on income from its natural resources to engineer successful diversification into manufacturing and sharply increased incomes for all ethnic groups. This paper examines the role of the policy-making process and...

China's accession to the WTO requires a great many specific policy reforms. However, if the best results are to be obtained, it is important that these reforms be implemented as part of a consistent development program, rather than simply by treating them as a recipe. To do this, policy makers...