The purpose of this paper is to set the issue of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia in two contexts: the changing geography of economic growth and patterns of trade and investment across the world as a whole, and the accompanying quiet revolution that has taken place in the international...

In the months and years ahead, it is plausible, perhaps even likely, that the issue of renewed Western economic assistance for the DPRK, or North Korea, will return once again to policymakers‘ agendas. We should therefore ask: Could major inflows of Western aid lead to an economic...

This paper studies the persistent effects of China’s Great Wall, built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), on contemporary regional ethnic diversity and economic development. Using rich township-level and individual-level data combined with spatial regression discontinuity strategy, we find that...

The paper analyses the development strategy adopted In China after 1978. It is shown that it has not followed a pre-determined plan but, on the contrary has emerged as a result of political shocks in the core of the CCP and of other factors related to history and geography

In a country where two out of five citizens, about 450 million people, live in poverty, it is no exaggeration to say that the development experience of Kerala – a coastal state on the southwestern tip of India – stands out as extraordinary. Despite a history of anemic economic growth, this...