environmental collapse or an export collapse. The fact that China has recently declared that its most important task is to build a … because a harmonious society cannot endure in China unless there is also a harmonious world, and vice-versa. The large amount … made the international atmosphere ripe for trade protectionism; and environmental degradation has made conflict over the …

caught in it. The CUI shows that China became a middle-income country in 2007-2008. We see five major types of middle …-income trap that China is vulnerable to (a) fiscal stress from the nonperforming loans generated by the interaction between the … governance principles and management methods to prevent China from falling into these five types of middle-income trap …

We analyze the impact of a rise in protectionism on environmental regulation. Using the 2018 US-China trade war as a … quasi-natural experiment, we find that higher exposure to tariffs leads to less stringent regulation targets in China …

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …

which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey … to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on …

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro and micro … reforms with well-designed social protection policies. – trade ; globalization ; poverty ; inequality ; China ; Morocco …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …