This article studies the effect of exchange rate regimes on the dramatic growth of the trade between China and Sub-Saharan Africa. A real exchange rate augmented gravity model shows that the exports of China?s manufactured goods are stimulated by the real depreciation of the renminbi against...

Cet article cherche tout d'abord à mettre en évidence l'existence d'une incitation à exporter et importer en fraude. La méthode d'analyse part d'un modèle simple, sans fraude, expliquant les exportations officielles par les taux de change officiel et libre, le taux de rétention des...

Revealed comparative advantage indices are calculated for China (1980-2000 period) and the Chinese provinces (1990-1998 period) and then incorporated into a reduced form export equation. The results of China’s export patterns show that China has moved from a heavy industry-oriented development...

A bilateral export demand function is developed to study the effects on the Chinese bilateral exports of three real exchange rates, corresponding respectively to the price-competitiveness of Chinese products on the market of the considered import country (traditional effect), on China’s other...

This article investigates the different effects that primary education, secondary education and university education exert on total factor productivity growth and its two components. Firstly, we give the theoretical arguments explaining these effects. Then, for the twenty-nine Chinese provinces...

The hypothesis of a long-run quantifiable relationship between non-oil primary commodity prices and macroeconomic/monetary variables -focusing industrial production and effective exchange rate of US dollar- is tested by co-integration technique using quarterly data for 1970q2-1993q3. This...

Actuellement, les Etats-Unis exercent une forte pression pour une ré-évaluation du Renminbi afin de réduire leur déficit commercial envers la Chine. Cette pression est-elle justifiée? Les analyses statistiques montrent que la forte croissance des exportations chinoises vers les pays...

Technological progress in the textile and clothing sectors is measured for 26 Chinese provinces using panel data by sector and the stochastic frontier method. The impact of the real exchange rate on this technological progress, as well as its transmission channels, are respectively estimated....