Over the past few decades China has emerged as an alternative model of development especially for countries in Asia and Africa. Not only has China achieved impressive growth rates, lifted almost half a billion people out of poverty but has also emerged as a rising global power. Many economists...

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...

This article strategically surveys the past century’s literature on agricultural development. We organize the discussion around three “grand themes” that reveal the richness of agricultural development as an intellectual endeavor. First, we explore the role of agriculture in the broader...

New information technologies have created new possibilities in resolving long-standing debates in social organization. The debates involving buying versus leasing, business versus government, and markets versus hierarchies captured intellectual imagination, and dominated public consciousness for...