China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

As China has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s largest investors abroad, there has been a hectic debate in the … whether this is the case. The study uses a panel dataset covering 155 countries, including 33 in the OECD, where China had … invested during 2003-09. This is by far the most comprehensive dataset of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A …

find that import and domestic consumptions are complements in China, but substitutes in Japan and Korea. Different per … capita incomes and consumer behaviors between China and the other two countries are two possible reasons for different … exchange rate adjustments in China. …