history and the initial endowments of the two Northern hemisphere economies China and India which are land scarce and labour …

In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This expansion … has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa with much-needed technology and financial …

China’s average household saving rate is one of the highest in the world. One popular view attributes the high saving … rate to fast rising housing prices and other costs of living in China. This article uses simple economic logic to show that … rising housing prices and living costs per se cannot explain China’s high household saving rate. Although borrowing …

In China, surveys find that migrant households' average happiness (compared with rural households) is lower despite … implications for economic development in China and elsewhere. …

China's impressive economic growth over three decades has seemingly occurred in the absence of a strong legal system …. This paper views China's reform process over the past three decades as one that has entailed a gradual introduction of … developing market-oriented institutions. This paper argues that China's transition is premised on a set of informal, and …

It is commonly argued that China's financial markets are effectively insulated from the rest of the world. To see if … this is true, and to better understand China's financial development, we analyse China's integration with major financial … markets. Using conditional copulas, we show that China has experienced an increasing level of integration with several major …

China using the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the period 1993-2006. The estimates show that Chinese women confront …

The global crisis is forcing China’s economy to become less dependent on foreign markets. Manufacturing industry has to … demand, while Chinese exporting firms are better placed to switch to dynamic emerging markets. China’s ordinary imports have … lost ground. China has become the engine of the regional economic growth. Foreign-capital firms have played an increasing …

This paper examines the export experience of China and other East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global …