following scenarios: (i) currency revaluation in China; (ii) elimination of U.S. tariffs on Latin American exports under a … America would see its share of the U.S. market decline by around 2 percent (2.5 percentage points). China's gains would come …

attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …

China has been the most successful developing country in this modern era of globalization. Since initiating economic … any, lessons they can take from China. This paper focuses on four features of modern China that have changed significantly … trade and direct investment. A third lesson is the development of high-quality infrastructure: China's good roads, reliable …

The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began …

households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption …

This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing … associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …

farmers in China for the period 1981 to 2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide computable general equilibrium …

In 2005, China participated for the first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP), which collects primary … implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … China than past estimates, with about 15% of the population living in consumption poverty, implying about 130 million more …

Decomposing China's real export growth, of over 500 percent since 1992, reveals a number of interesting findings. First …, China's export structure changed dramatically, with growing export shares in electronics and machinery and a decline in … agriculture and apparel. Second, despite the shift into these more sophisticated products, the skill content of China …

The author analyzes the relationship between growth and financial intermediation at the sub-national level within China …