This article discusses China's trade policy stance following World Trade Organization (WTO) accession in 2002. The issues now for China are less the merits of WTO accession, and more how her global trade policies are cast given WTO membership. Three issues are taken up. The first is the extent...

This symposium contains three papers on poverty and inequality in China. The issues surrounding inequality have been high profile in China for some time. They reflect the growth policies adopted in a commitment, initially from the mid-1980s onward, of growth almost at any price independent of...

I discuss the need for trade models to incorporate endogenous trade imbalances both to more adequately capture the reality of a global economy with large imbalances and pressures from the financial crisis for countries to reduce imbalances. Conventional general equilibrium trade models...