This paper considers how specific the Chinese growth experience is in the convergence debate. It shows the location of China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of...

[fre] Depuis 1978, les provinces chinoises connaissent des différences d'inflation importantes. Cet article relie cette observation à la littérature théorique existante sur le rôle joué par la politique économique locale sur la croissance du crédit et l'inflation en Chine. Un modèle...

Boyreau-Debray analyzes the relationship between growth and financial intermediation at the subnational level within China. Does the quality of the banking sector in a province affect its rate of growth? Do state and nonstate banking sectors perform differently? Does the structure of the local...

The topic of this paper is the time needed by China for becoming the largest economy in the world, based on the current tendency of development. Four factors are estimated: GDP, speed of growth, exchange rate and GDP deflator. The results of the estimations lead to think that chinese economy...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...

En apportant des fondements microéconomiques à la segmentation du marché du travail, la nouvelle microéconomie de l'emploi est restée focalisée sur une vision manichéenne des modes organisationnels de coordination des offres et des demandes d'emploi opposant le marché externe au marché...

After motivating the analysis by describing cross-border trade between Nigeria and its neighbours, this paper analyses the welfare effect of smuggling and of trade liberalisation. When smuggling occurs because of a tariff or an export tax, smuggling is detrimental if it entails some real...