In the past three decades, China has transformed itself from a central-planned, agricultural economy to the world's manufacturing base and growth engine. Expanding at an average annual rate of more than 10 percent, the Chinese economy is now the second-largest in the world. Globalization is...

Financial system policymakers around the world continue to respond vigorously to the problems in financial markets, financial institutions, and financial system regulation and supervision brought into high relief by the global financial crisis. However, the overall understanding of what those...

This paper examines the impact of terrorism on economic growth and capital formation using data for 152 countries from 1970 to 2003.During the past thirty-five years, the world has witnessed nearly twenty thousand terrorist incidents. The increasingly global scope of terrorism has raised...