manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …

China. We also find that corruption strongly reduces tax revenue. Looking at things from an expenditure point of view we … observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also … that the pollution haven hypothesis may not hold in China. This finding sheds a new light on the “China puzzle” that China …

This paper deals with some structural indicators and their evolution, in China and regions, over the period 1981 …