This paper analyzes the growing role played by exports and investment in China's rapid economic growth since 1978. It examines the reasons for the shift over time in China's growth model, which occurred in stages, and it questions the sustainability of the recent dependence on exports and...

"This book examines the economic, cultural and structural factors affecting China's economic growth, and expounds why China's economy has been so successful in the past, and the challenges that lie ahead for the country amidst the changing world, new challenges and uncertainties. The authors lay...

This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for 80 countries over the period 1961 – 2000. We perform tests using the full sample of countries as well as sub-samples consisting of OECD countries, middle-income countries, and...

Privatization is a crucial component of the neoliberal policies prevailing over much of the world in the past two and half decades. The underlying theoretical argument of these policies is that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are inherently inefficient and therefore hinder economic growth....

Levine and Zervos (1998) presented cross-country econometric evidence showing that, in a sample of 47 countries, stock market liquidity contributed a significant positive influence on GDP growth between 1976-93. We show that the Levine-Zervos results are not robust to alternative specifications...