in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) have become middle class by 2007, which is especially impressive given that around … privatization. As industrialization and urbanization continue in the PRC, the growth of the middle class will intensify, and could …

We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil—Investment Climate … find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms … attrition costs. Labour regulations both in India and China deter firms from locating in the larger cities, but not in Brazil …

This paper represents a first attempt to study China’s business cycles using a formal analytical framework, namely, a …

by the incumbent poor. The decomposition is applied to appraising poverty trends in China between 1988 and 1996. The …

This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in China from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, employing a version of … ; Shapley decomposition ; unit-record data ; China …

(1999). The model is then used to analyse the sources of China’s trade balance fluctuations in the period of 1985 … demand shock, and the nominal shock. Among other findings, two emerge as important. First, the movements in China’s trade are … trade balance. Therefore, monetary measures would not suffice to redress China’s trade ‘imbalance’. – China ; trade balance …

A considerable literature exists on the measurement of income inequality in China and its increasing trend. Much less … inequality accounting in rural China, using household level data. It is found that geography has been the dominant factor but is …

decomposition ; China …

This paper examines the distributional impact of globalization on the poor in urban China. Employing the kernel density … influence of several other variables. – globalization ; poverty ; China …