reflecting a large domestic output gap generated by many years of high investment. Inflation varies systemically within China … lower-income provinces. Higher Mainland food inflation also raises inflation in non-Mainland China …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes state-owned enterprise (SOE) development and reform in China. The paper discusses … rates of capacity utilization in some sectors. The paper also examines banking sector development and policy issues in China …

changes in China’s exchange rate policy in 2005 and 2010 and employing data on some 6,000 firms in 44 economies. Stock returns … market sentiment and specific trade effects. Expected renminbi appreciation has a positive effect on firms exporting to China … competing with China in their home market but fall for firms importing Chinese products with large imported-input content. There …

We examine the impact of real exchange rate fluctuations on sectoral and regional employment in China from 1980 to 2008 … with employment data at the region-sector level. The results of this paper have important implications for China''s labor …

tradable industries and that output volatility is much greater in China than in industrial economies. We find that the driving … force behind our simulation results is strongly related to the non-uniform nature of credit market imperfections in China …

papers included in this volume comprise the proceedings of a conference on inflation and growth in China that brought … China, and the framework in which monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate policies are formulated in China …

The reform of fiscal relations between different levels of geovernment is crucial to the success of China's current … experience and to clearly identify the policy options for China in the short to medium term, a conference was held in Shanghai in …

China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …