China lags behind the world standard in urbanization, even during its rapid economic growth period under reform. This urbanization lag implies a tremendous cost in employment and growth, approximately a loss of 75 million job opportunities and a loss of 10% of in GDP. Urgent attention and...

This study investigates the geographic effects on regional economic growth in China under market reforms. We develop a model for the regional growth pattern of the Chinese economy during the period, characterized by foreign direct investment (FDI) and mobilization of rural surplus labor. The FDI...

This study constructs a general CGE model for value-added tax (VAT). From limited publicly available VAT data, the model is capable of estimating all VAT statistics at the detailed sectoral level, including estimates of Output VAT, Input VAT, Net VAT, and VAT Refunds to each intermediate input,...

Input-output models and tables -- Prices in input-output tables and models -- SAM (social accounting matrices) tables -- Balancing SAM tables -- General equilibrium theory and its application -- Supply and demand functions of enterprises -- CGE models with non-linear production functions --...