1 Introduction -- 2 General information -- 3 The Enormous Pace of Infrastructural Development -- 4 Internationalisation of China -- 5 Energy Supply -- 6 Market Opportunities -- 7 Economic Hubs -- 8 Labour Market and Education -- 9 Understanding the Chinese Culture -- 10 General Business...

This paper examines the impact of economic and development zones (EDZs) on the productivity of incumbent firms in China. To deal with the selection issue, I first take into account potentially different selection mechanisms across two popular types of EDZs – economic and technological...

The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra-regional trade. To achieve this objective, we use gravity model estimated with the Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) techniques. Our results show that the number of...

This study is dealing with the strategic changes in the Chinese Economy in the light of launch of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. In this process, it has used secondary data from the government sources for analysis the state of economy as well the development efforts in the last one year...