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 …

capital, business environment, to investigate what extent China’s economy structure is likely hit by SARS epidemic in 2003 and … global financial crisis in 2008. It finds that China’s economy structure is unchanged after the hits, the deep economy … crisis have no impact on the long run factor, accordingly, China’s economy growth is sustainable. It suggests further human …

Many fear China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will impoverish its rural people by way of greater … of China's WTO accession. The results suggest farm-nonfarm and Western-Eastern income inequality may well rise in China … China's WTO accession …

economies. However, there has been a lack of empirical study of this kind on China and other developing countries. This paper … attempts to fill this gap by answering how and to what extent oil-price shocks impact China’s economy, emphasizing on the price … differentiated price control policies for materials and intermediates on the one hand and final products on the other hand in China …

-owned enterprise reform in the context of Vietnam's accession to the WTO. …

-owned enterprise reform in the context of Vietnam's accession to the WTO. …

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 …

privatization in postcommunist Russia. Taking advantage of large regional variation in the size of public administrations, and … employing a multilevel research design that controls for pre-privatization selection in the estimation of regional privatization … effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find …