sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …

suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China comparable to that of halving its trade …

benefits and costs, and incidence across household and industry groups. The model is applied to China, the world's largest …

that an increase in the number of anticorruption cases tends to drive down SO2 emissions in China. It is also found that …

Plummeting commodity prices, China's economic malaise, and global financial market turbulence have recently wreaked … Tanzanian economy. The author finds that a 1 percentage point (ppts) drop in China's investment growth is associated with a …

focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

textile and clothing products in conjunction with China’s accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …