This working paper assesses the progress made in improving China’s exchange rate policies over the past five years … (that is, since 2002). I first discuss four indicators of progress on China’s external imbalance and its exchange rate … policies—namely, the change in (and level of) China’s global current account position, movements in the real effective exchange …

In this paper the author argues that China's exchange rate policy is seriously flawed given its current macroeconomic …-valued; (ii) China has been "manipulating" its currency, contrary to the IMF rules of the game; (iii) it is in China's own … interest, as well as in the interest of the international community, for China to initiate an appreciation of the RMB soon; and …

years. Wal-Marts sales, which currently account for 15% of U.S. imports of consumer goods from China, grew 90-fold over this … period, while U.S. imports from China increased 30-fold. We relate these trends using a model in which scale economies in …

.e intellectual property rules. During the 1980s and 1990s, China developed a legal framework of intellectual property (IP) meeting … implementation of these international rules favouring first and foremost foreign investment in China, as also expected by the Chinese …

activities for China and India for 2000 and 1998-99 respectively. Wage shares for the formal/informal employment for China and …

China for the years 1980-2002. In this study, I examine the determinants of these variations. The variation of pass …

(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …

China is poised to establish itself not only as a global manufacturing centre, but also aims to become a world centre … for the information technology (IT) products within the next decade. This paper looks at China's software industry in …. With empirical evidence, the paper shows that while China still faces major obstacles to the growth of its software …