. Finally, we provide an explanation for why the gradual reform strategy worked well for China, while this is much less so for …

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …%. Privatization to foreign rather than domestic investors has a larger impact (about 44%) and is much more consistent across countries …

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 …

We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated …

process. Particularly, it analyzes the symbiotic link between share issue privatization (SIP), i.e. privatization in public … policy recommendations in order to achieve the same goal in the People's Republic of China (PRC). …

. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …

China and India, two Asian countries that experienced a rapid decline in fertility since the middle of the twentieth … is that, under the same plausible parameter settings, the optimal paths for China and India differ substantially … developments, followed a path closer to the optimal fertility transition than China, where the fertility decline was state …