. We next consider the ability of village-level elections in rural China to reduce rent seeking, and the extent to which …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … document significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

This paper examines the impact of China's falling import tariffs on the organization of exports between ordinary and …

industrial upgrading in a developing economy through an analysis of the mobile telecom sector in China. Over the last decade …, China has become the world's largest market for mobile phones, and domestic Chinese firms have been able to take advantage …

The goal of this paper is to understand the nature of the property rights associated with China's land tenure systems … and associated property rights in rural China affect the production behavior of farmers. The most robust finding is that …

China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …