We use data from the World Bank Global Findex database for 2011 to analyze financial inclusion in China, including … comparisons with the other BRICS countries. We find a high level of financial inclusion in China manifested by greater use of … voluntary. The use of formal credit is however less frequent in China than in the other BRICS. Borrowing through family or …

focused on the development of bank efficiency and profitability over time. The equally important question - which of China …China’s banking sector is dominated by four distinct organizational forms: policy banks (PBs), state-owned commercial …

, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining … Chinese firms' financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …

This paper provides an empirical examination of the regional banking structures in China and their effects on …

whether the poor are constrained in the informal credit market. This paper uses recent micro data of rural China to answer …

Despite an erosion of consensus on its benefits, capital account convertibility remains a long-term goal of China. This … paper identifies three major preconditions for convertibility in China: a strong domestic banking system, relatively …, in significant respects, China does not yet meet any of the conditions necessary for convertibility. They then evaluate …