The current Chinese development model is nearing its limits. The World Bank has cautioned that China could find itself … in a “middle-income trap”. China recognizes that it must dramatically increase its capacity for innovation to avoid this … trap. This chapter provides an introduction to the enormous complexities and challenges that China faces in transforming …

, China and India. It begins with a clarification of the meaning of industrial policy, since not only does the term mean … past experience with variants of industrial policies. The similarities of the "China model" to past East Asian experience …

China's fast growth has been accompanied by rising regional inequality, triggering debate over a policy trade …-off between aggregate growth and equity. We set out a three-region model of China in which local government behavior affects local …

necessary for authorities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to consider an approach that would further attune its economic …

We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in the Japan, the People's Republic of China …

values in China and Taiwan. Mainland China and Taiwan had been under the rule of the Qing dynasty and shared the same culture … distance between imperial occupiers and the regions of mainland China and Taiwan. We show that due to the cultural proximity of …, mainland China was intruded mainly by Western empires from 1842 to the early twentieth century and thus experienced a different …