This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for …

This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for …

, is non-diversifiable; but the other part, while diversifiable, is difficult for conventional insurance arrangements to … for life cover. Insurance arrangements regulated on a national basis pose further possible problems. The response, we … suggest, will be global financial market innovation primarily in the area of insurance, but also in diversification of asset …

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 focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … China, and the two have to be considered a joint global presence. India and China are thus viewed in the literature in …

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 …