The authors use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare impacts …

Many fear China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will impoverish its rural people by way of greater … of China's WTO accession. The results suggest farm-nonfarm and Western-Eastern income inequality may well rise in China …

Ianchovichina and Martin present estimates of the impact of accession by China and Chinese Taipei to the World Trade … Organization. China is estimated to be the biggest beneficiary, followed by Chinese Taipei and their major trading partners …. Accession will boost the labor-intensive manufacturing sectors in China, especially the textiles and apparel sector that will …

China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession will have major implications for China and present both opportunities … and challenges for East Asia. Ianchovichina and Walmsley assess the possible channels through which China's accession to … the WTO could affect East Asia and quantify these effects using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. China will …

' complaints, on the environmental performance of polluters in China. Their analysis of plant-level data from the city of Zhenjiang …

The authors investigate two aspects of China's pollution levy system, which was first implemented about 20 years ago …

pollution control in China, and estimates the marginal cost of pollution abatement. He examines a well-documented set of plant … behavior in China. He constructs and estimates an industrial organic water pollution discharge model for plants that violate … is for industrial firms to control pollution in China. The author's modeling approach also provides a way to estimate the …

The main problems with China's pension system--the pension burdens of state enterprises and the agency of the … types of enterprise ownership and 22 groups in the labor force, the authors estimate the effects of pension reform in China …, comparing various options for financing the transition cost. They examine the impact that various reform options would have on …

preeminence in China, it is the Asian city most likely to become a global center. The authors explore the makings of a world city … extent to which China opens up and on a host of municipal policies--policies that emphasize Shanghai's industrial strength …