This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty...

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience, and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty...

Savings rates are the biggest difference in the economic structures of China and the United States, the two most important countries in today’s global economy. China has the highest savings rate of any major country, while the United States, at the other end of the spectrum, has the lowest....

Tournament competition is viewed as motivating bureaucrats in promoting growth. This paper examines how this incentive leads to economic performance manipulation. Using data from Chinese cities, the analysis shows that performance exaggeration increases over the course of the first term of the...

Tournament competition is viewed as motivating bureaucrats in promoting growth. This paper examines how this incentive leads to economic performance manipulation. Using data from Chinese cities, the analysis shows that performance exaggeration increases over the course of the first term of the...

Utilizing 1998–2020 matched data consisting of a sample of both listed firms and always-non-listed firms, this study establishes the causal impacts of listing on the financial behavior of private firms in China. Our results are as follows. First, initial public offerings (IPOs) cause private...

While anti-corruption policies are generally believed to be crucial for investment and economic growth, we argue that such policies may backfire by impairing local officials’ incentives to grow the economy in a society featuring weak formal institutions and a state-led development model where...

Health, as an important human capital, is fundamental for bureaucrats to properly perform duties so as to deliver the function of the state. Based on a nationally representative longitudinal survey and using a difference-in-differences identification strategy, we study whether and how the recent...

Adjustment of the pH value is an effective method to control the morphology of nanostructures. In this work, the W18O49 nanowires with crystalline@amorphous homogenous core-shell composite structures were prepared by controlling the pH of the precursor during the hydrothermal reaction. Due to...