pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

factor costs, China's economic geography as it influences trade costs, as well as the degree of regional diversity in … China in the 19th century were relatively low …

The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …

. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …

This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China%u2019s recent rapid economic growth using a two … Chinese economy. These enterprises account for over 50% of China%u2019s exports and 60% of China%u2019s imports. Their share … decomposition results indicate that China%u2019s FIEs may have contributed over 40% of China%u2019s economic growth in 2003 and 2004 …

nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative … to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … inherited from the previous generation. The resulting increase in China's (domestic K)/L thus ‘crowds out' the need for FDI in …

data and macroeconomic covariates, we find positive association of Chinese trade and financial flows with China's outward … strengthened by the provision of RMB swap-line agreements with China's trading partners. The evidences support the conjecture that …

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … million in 1990 to $2.6 billion in 2006. On the basis of these data, one frequently hears the claim that China is now a …