China is now the world's largest destination of foreign direct investment (FDI), despite assessments highlighting its … institutional deficiencies. But this FDI inflow corresponds closely to predicted FDI flows into China from a model that predicts FDI …-institution countries. The only real discrepancy is that, if government quality is measured by constraints on executive power, China …

Over the past two decades China's growth has been rapid, social indicators have improved, and poverty levels have … concerns provide China with daunting challenges in improving the quality of growth. The rapid growth that will remain China … facing China and suggests policies for achieving rapid, balanced, and sustainable growth. …

This publication is organized as follows: Chapter 1, discuses China's industrial system: where it is now, where it … should be headed, and why. Chapter 2, contains reform in China. Chapter 3, discusses the accelerated change in enterprise … effects of ownership reform in China. Chapter 6, considers making privatization work. …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April …