Center for China Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Department of Economics, Geborg University, Sweden

Since the founding of the People's Republic more than forty years ago, China has experienced numerous economic cycles and economic readjustments. One of the characteristic regularities of China's economic development is the cyclic fluctuation manifested as the rise-fall-rise again-fall again of...

Every country has its own peculiar set of conditions and national circumstances, its own peculiar traditions, and its unique path to follow. In particular, when it comes to an enormous developing country such as China, a country with such a huge population and such a vast territory, with its...

>i>1. The background to writing this "Report on State Capacity":>/i> The fact that the relationship between the central government and the local governments is one of the chief contradictions and points of conflict in China's society [today].

Beginning on New Year's Day in 1994, the Chinese government formally inaugurated the implementation of a system of tax sharing between the central government and local governments. This was taken to be one of the most important and wide-ranging institutional innovations in our nation since the...

This study estimates and analyzes provincial productivity growth in China for the period 1979-2001. The Malmquist Index approach allows us to decompose productivity growth into two components, technological progress and efficiency change. Considerable productivity growth was found for most of...

This paper tests the external spillover effects of the transportation on China’s economic growth from the theoretical and the empirical perspectives. Based on a logarithm production model, this study first proves the existence of the positive externality in the transportation. After that, the...

The rapid growth of China's economy has brought about huge losses of natural capital in the form of natural resource depletion and damages from carbon emissions. This paper recalculates value added, capital formation, capital stock, and related multifactor productivity in China's industrial...

The development of China's iron and steel industry (ISI) is an important indication of China's industrialization. This paper analyses the industry from the perspectives of historical retrospect, international comparison and sustainable development. We find that China's ISI has made huge progress...