This is the report of a mission of the IMF Legal Department which visited the People's Republic of China in May 1993 …. The purpose of this mission was to explore the questions: "What does the rule of law mean for the tax system of China … recommendations are tailored to what the authors perceive as the current situation in China, by and large they flow from their …

When China acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2001, pundits were enthusiastic about the prospect that China …’s World Trade Organization membership would boost international trade, encourage China’s restructuring toward a market economy …, discipline the domestic legal system, and strengthen the rule of law in China. More recently, however, serious concerns have been …

The “rule of law” (ROL) is invoked by multinational institutions, Western governments and in China as a political … handbook on China and international law, compares different understandings of the rule of law in the West and in China. The … they speak of the ‘rule of law’ as an ideal to aspire. We argue that within China, there is a top-down control of the …

financial centre / Douglas W. Arner -- Level playing field as an institutional challenge to China as a socialist market economy … difference in wording, but a big difference in rule-making : a retrospective and prospective view on the development of China …'s economic zones / Jiaxiang Hu -- Finance, rule of law and human rights in China / Matthias Vanhullebusch -- Positioning …

Globalization and the economics of radical change in China -- Setting the stage : a primer to the study of China …'s economic reforms -- Changing social institutions -- China in the global economy -- Environment, pollution, and renewable energy … -- Changing life chances -- The rule of law and prospects for democracy -- China's integration into the global political economy …

-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more … par with the Elites in China in terms of power and rights. Based on these narratives, we build a game-theoretical model … differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the …