This paper analyses the channels through which growth reduces poverty by evaluating the relationship between the sectoral composition of economic growth and the rural-urban composition of poverty.Unlike previous studies, that use single country or multi-country cross-sectional data, the analysis...

This paper focuses on two major elements of China's population dynamics – the rising proportion of workers in the population and the shift of rural workers from agriculture to industry and services – in a provincial-level analysis of per capita income and productivity growth during the last...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Impacts on regional economic growth -- 2. Regional characteristics and the impacts of foreign direct investment on China's regional economic growth -- 3. The interregional impacts of foreign direct investment on China's inland economic growth -- Part II...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Wei-Chiao Huang and Huizhong Zhou -- The United States and the China challenge / Murray Scot Tanner -- Is there a Xi Jinping model of economic reform? / Barry Naughton -- Understanding the major threats to China's economic growth / Wing Thye Woo -- State...