China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …

of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in … services have also grown significantly in terms of both value-added share and productivity. The results are robust to different …

We analyze and compare the pattern of economic growth and development of China and South Korea in the postwar period … potentially valuable lessons for China. The Asian giant moved from low income to middle income very quickly but now faces the … challenge of graduating to high income. In this paper, we empirically assess the main drivers of economic growth in China and …

We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in the Japan, the People's Republic of China … productivity growth. We observe a striking similarity between the experience in the Republic of Korea and the PRC, which gives some …

- of education. The findings are used to suggest whether the People's Republic of China is successfully progressing through …