Consumer finance and its significance -- Overview of development of consumer finance in China, Japan and South Korea -- Credit card business and consumer finance of China, Japan and South Korea -- Chinese retailing development & consumer finance -- Non-bank financial institutions and consumer...

"The focus of the global economy is increasingly shifted towards China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emerging economies often lack the sound capital market and corporate governance systems necessary to promote the efficient allocation of financial...

The China question : can the rise of the Middle Kingdom be accommodated? / Benjamin Cohen -- China and the International Monetary Fund : neglected historical roots and continuities / Eric Helleiner and Bessma Momani -- The politics of foreign reserve accumulation in China / David Steinberg --...

"The Chinese economy is now easily one of the most important and closely scrutinized economies in the world. Relatively minuscule changes in predictions of how the Chinese economy will perform can drive up or down stocks and the price of oil and other commodities. At the heart of how the Chinese...