"The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean provides a comprehensive … overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience …. What are the underlying factors behind China's competitive edge? What are the strategic implications of China's rise for …

and productivity of firms in designated areas. We use unique panel data from China with information on manufacturing firms …’ production factors, productivity and location, and we exploit temporal and spatial variation in place-based interventions due to … issues that (i) science parks are located in favourable locations and that (ii) high-productivity firms sort themselves in …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U ….S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm …