This article employs cointegration and error-correction modelling to test the causal relationship between real income, exports and human capital stock using data for China over the period 1960 to 1999. We find that real exports, human capital and real income are cointegrated when real exports is...

Researchers prefer to use a demand system that best fits their data. This paper examines a nonnested test of comparison between the quadratic expenditure system (QES) and the almost ideal demand system (AIDS). We determine which model is more suitable by analyzing the value and the significance...

The paper covers Sino-Pakistan bilateral relations from the establishment of their diplomatic relations to the end of year 1960. The paper doesn¡¯t describe the cultural and economic aspects of their bilateral relations in detail. Although there were some suspicions and differences between...

This study considers the implications of China¡¯s energy security strategy for the future Sino-U.S. relations. Being the world¡¯s largest energy consumer, the second largest oil consumer and importer, China has pursued its own energy security strategy since the late 1990s in earnest. In the...

In this study, based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, we empirically examine the effects of trade openness and the level of economic development on pollution emission across the Chinese provinces. Our regression analysis shows that increasing trade openness contributes to...

In this study we present an analytical framework providing guidelines for discussions and expositions on the various possible transmission mechanisms of the impacts of the global crisis on the Chinese economy. While the crisis had discernible impacts on its finance, the main channels through...