A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind - that's the vision for China set out by … a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the 'China Story' is a complex one. The China … presents a range of perspectives, from the global to the individual, the official to the unofficial, from mainland China to …

Since the release of the 12th Five-Year Plan in 2011, a reform of China's household registration system – the so … so far (beyond some experiments at the provincial level). In the context of growing urbanisation pressures in China, a …

China's economy is at a cross roads. The factors that have driven its economic transformation over the last decades are …-income' trap, China's leaders are attempting to engineer a reorientation of the economy towards more sustainable sources of growth …. While considerable success has been achieved, more needs to be done more quickly before the authorities in China can prove …

of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … tariff on cotton has been a subject of intense debate in China and this paper is intended to provide an input into this … debate. The paper agrees that urgent action is clearly needed to mitigate the poverty problems in rural China, but concludes …

economy-wide impacts of different types of public spending in China. A particular focus is placed on their impacts on food … types of public spending in China. The effects of increased agricultural subsidies, agricultural R&D, and irrigation are … simulated by using China DCGE model. Findings – The results show that public spending has significant impact on food production …

This paper surveys (1)the reasons for economic reform in China to be introduced in 1978, (2)the major components of … economic reform, (3) the characteristics of the reform process, (4) why reform was successful, (5) the shortcomings of China … material is drawn from the author¡¯s book China¡¯s Economic Transformation(Blackwell, 2002). …

In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …