We use a competing risk model to analyze environmental determinants of child mortality using the 1992 China National …

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan … get a telephone line, sales lost to power outages). For many of these costs, the obstacles are lower in China than in the … for investment and production. This paper helps explain why China has been so successful over the past decade, both in …

Development of the western region is vital to the balanced growth of China. The author studies the impacts of …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and …

associated with an increased demand for skilled labor, the opposite is true in China. …