paper, we attempt via four case studies - Spain, China, Colombia, and Nigeria - to illustrate that the improvements in tax …

fronts. This is increasingly evident because China's economic diplomacy has been politely and strategically coined to achieve … just that. A case study is used here to articulate the currents of the survey. The paper puts some structure on China …'s economic diplomatic strategies and discusses lessons for Africa, China and the West. It contributes to existing literature by …

China is or will also be confronted with such a trap. This paper analyzes the Chinese MIT situation taking into account both … survey the recent literature, but also make our own MIT forecasts and analyze under which conditions China could be caught in …

Prior to the early part of the 19th century, China’s economy had long been superior to that of the West’s. The Chinese … expansion. Perhaps with the assistance of innovations derived from China, the European economy was able to forge ahead of China … occurred in China. In spite of substantial adversity, China has re-emerged as one of the most dominant economic forces in the …

economies. As a middle income economy, China is also facing the risk of a financial crisis, and the key to avoiding the middle …

increase in inequality was statistically significant and reduced the average rate of poverty reduction per year by about 28 … increased at their observed levels but inequality had not changed. When the data are decomposed into rural and urban areas of … residence or by province, or by the ethnicity of the household head, the increase in inequality within groups dominates any …

policies implemented in China after the 2008 crisis to tackle housing unaffordability have been effective except for the least …

environment ('grease the wheels' and 'sand the wheels'). Corruption is observed to considerably increase income inequality in … China. We also find that corruption strongly reduces tax revenue. Looking at things from an expenditure point of view we … observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also …