employs unique firm-level data from China's most energy-intensive large and medium-size industrial enterprises in each of … these four industries over a six-year period from 1999 to 2004. It empirically examines how China's energy-saving programs … intensity in all four industries. China's industrial policies targeting scale economies -- for example, "grasping the large …

Since the onset of economic reforms in 1978, China has been remarkably successful in reducing the carbon dioxide … competition, and technological change. China's industrial and technology policies also have contributed to lower carbon dioxide …

This paper explores the economic impacts of two related tracks of China's expected transformation?economic slowdown and … on Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper finds that an average annual slowdown of gross domestic product in China of 1 … globally by 0.6 percent relative to the past trends scenario by 2030. However, if China's transformation also entails …

Hong Kong SAR, China, and Macau SAR, China, and the second-nature advantages as first-movers in the reforms in attracting …

changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …-poor vertical redistribution. Without the horizontal redistribution and re-ranking, the Gini coefficient for China might have fallen …

This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of … direction of the trade specialization pattern of China and India. Labor-intensive sectors (both unskilled and skilled) probably … have been negatively affected by the growing presence of China and India in world markets, while natural resource and …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …