We present a novel account of China's recent move to decentralize legislation through amending the Law on Legislation (LL). Conventional wisdom pervading both Chinese political discourse and social scientific scholarship on China portrays law as incompatible with experimentation and as only...

We examine the wage and employment impact on Chinese firms of an increase in import competition associated with China's WTO accession in December 2001, with an emphasis on state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We find that both wage and employment are negatively impacted by an increase in import...

China's urbanization is significant world-wide. This process is characterized by under-urbanization of population and fast urban land expansion. The driving forces behind this expansion and their rationale are not fully understood and empirically tested. This study fills this gap by analyzing...

Reforms to modernise and strengthen the financial sector have continued in recent years. The cleaning-up of the stock of non-performing loans is largely completed and considerable progress has been made in improving commercial banks’ corporate governance structures and risk management systems....

This report analyzes China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada. It considers the strategic drivers of this interest. Canada needs FDI, but Canadian politics (and therefore policy) may not be receptive to such investments for the reasons explored in this report. The report concludes...

Reforms to modernise and strengthen the financial sector have continued in recent years. The cleaning-up of the stock of non-performing loans is largely completed and considerable progress has been made in improving commercial banks’ corporate governance structures and risk management systems....