relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature …