Does decentralization exacerbate Chinese corruption? This study uses unique quasi-experiments of “province-managing-county” and “county-power-expansion” reforms in China from 2003 to 2015 to investigate this question. Improving the measures of corruption, decentralization, and...

The basis for studying the North Korean economy is to gain an understanding of the size of the overall economy and the trends within it. However, owing to the fact that North Korea does not release data on its GDP and GNI, the task has fallen on the shoulders of outside researchers and such...

North Korea is one of the most closed and secretive societies in the world. Despite a high level of interest from the outside world, we have very little detailed information about how the country functions economically. In this valuable book for both the academic and policy-making circles,...