highlighted by most empirical studies on China, the question of whether an inverse relationship may exist is seldom, if ever … foreign investment in regional economic growth in China. It also serves to underline the importance of the potential for …

China’s local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information … investigation of the impact of China’s LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus … assessment of LGD in China’s regional economies, using recently released auditing statistics and other available secondary …

In this paper we review the fiscal evolution of China and Russia, asking how the process of creating a separate, tax …-financed public sector in the two countries differed. We observe that the size of China's budget sector was consistently smaller than … in Russia and that budget decentralization was consistently greater. We see both pros and cons in China …

This article uses both cross-section and panel data approaches to study regional growth in China. Inter-regional income … studies on China. Only after controlling for regional effects, population growth, and investment in both physical and human …

Interregional spillover effects are central to China’s growth policy; yet relatively little is known about the strength … spillover of output between the three commonly-used regions of China: coastal, central and western regions. We find that there …