China is today the second-largest economy after the US and the world-leading export nation. The economic and political … development of China in the past decades has had a big impact on other parts of the world. The Chinese demand for natural … resources has dramatically changed trade volumes and structures in many resource-producing countries. Even though China has …

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a … national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by …