China’s Dilemma—Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront … tensions such as income inequality, an over-exploited environment and the long-term pressures of global warming.China’s Dilemma … discusses key questions that will have an impact on China’s growth path and offers some in-depth analyses as to how China could …

The economic growth of China is clearly one of the defining trends of our time. The world's most populous nation is … important impacts on economics, business, politics, and environmental conditions throughout the world.In China's Dilemma …

Under reasonable assumptions, China could achieve parity in living standard with Western Europe by 2100, and India by … negative environmental feedback before China achieves parity in living standards with the OECD countries. We use a dynamic … Agency in 2007. This outcome is a reminder that it has been usual so far to underestimate the growth in China energy …

The 6th Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) concluded on October 11, 2006, with … smashing into a barrier erected by an outsider. For hardware failure we discuss the possible weakening of China's fiscal … disorder caused by outmoded governance. And for power supply failure, we discuss the possible trade disputes from China …

environmental collapse or an export collapse. The fact that China has recently declared that its most important task is to build a … because a harmonious society cannot endure in China unless there is also a harmonious world, and vice-versa. The large amount … global environmental commons more likely. China's quest for a harmonious society requires it to help provide global public …

competition increase as a result of China's recent accession to the World Trade Organization? Will Indonesia, Malaysia, the … model suggest that, beyond the underlying international repercussions generated by China's emergence into the international … economy, China's WTO accession per se is likely to generate additional substantial benefits for China and have little …

The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its … discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China … advanced member of WTO. If the experimentalist interpretation of China''s phenomenal growth is correct, then WTO membership is …

China has a built-in inflationary tendency because of the partially-reformed nature of its economic system … constraint is imposed on the SOEs, China's dysfunctional financial system would impart a deflationary bias to the economy and … render China a capital exporting country by constraining the growth of aggregate demand to be less than the growth of …

Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …