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 …

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 …