A bilateral export demand function is developed to study the effects on the Chinese bilateral exports of three real exchange rates, corresponding respectively to the price-competitiveness of Chinese products on the market of the considered import country (traditional effect), on China’s other...

This article investigates the different effects that primary education, secondary education and university education exert on total factor productivity growth and its two components. Firstly, we give the theoretical arguments explaining these effects. Then, for the twenty-nine Chinese provinces...

The hypothesis of a long-run quantifiable relationship between non-oil primary commodity prices and macroeconomic/monetary variables -focusing industrial production and effective exchange rate of US dollar- is tested by co-integration technique using quarterly data for 1970q2-1993q3. This...

Actuellement, les Etats-Unis exercent une forte pression pour une ré-évaluation du Renminbi afin de réduire leur déficit commercial envers la Chine. Cette pression est-elle justifiée? Les analyses statistiques montrent que la forte croissance des exportations chinoises vers les pays...

Technological progress in the textile and clothing sectors is measured for 26 Chinese provinces using panel data by sector and the stochastic frontier method. The impact of the real exchange rate on this technological progress, as well as its transmission channels, are respectively estimated....

This article investigates the impact that the real exchange rate appreciation in China has exerted on productivity growth since 1994. We remind the arguments explaining a positive or a negative impact of a real appreciation on efficiency and on technical progress. DEA Malmquist indices of...

La sensibilité du commerce extérieur de la Chine aux prix relatifs à court terme et à long terme a été confirmée pour la période 1978-1994 en utilisant la technique de cointégration et la représentation à correction d'erreur. Cette sensibilité a été plus forte pour les biens...

This paper, using an export and foreign direct investment augmented production function, examines empirically the effects of these two additional variables on the economic growth of China from 1952 to 1995. Our econometric results confirm not only the contribution to growth of production factors...

The channels through which the real exchange rate influences urban/rural per capita real income inequality are analyzed using yearly data for 28 Chinese provinces. Due to the higher share of tradable goods produced in urban than rural areas, the real depreciation of the Chinese currency raised...

If poverty has been significantly deceased in China during the last twenty years, this decrease was very unequal across the provinces and was accompanied by an increase of the urban and rural per capita income disparity. We studied the impact on this last one of the exchange rate policy, which...