A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...

Building on a recent OECD-WTO data-set, the paper builds a typology of value-added traders according to their economic and trade policy characteristics. In the process, it defines clusters of countries according to the multi-dimensional criteria defined by value-added, economic and trade policy...

In this paper, I review evidence on changing global specialization in labor-intensive exporting. Production of apparel, footwear, furniture, and related products are how many low-income countries first enter export manufacturing. Just as China’s rise as a powerhouse in these goods supplanted a...

Executive summary -- 1. China in the realm of the world economy / David Daokui Li -- 2. Interpretation of China's economic comeback / Youngrok Cheong -- 3. Reflections on 10 years of financial reform in China / Ping Xie -- 4. higher education reform in China: market orientation and institutional...