Organization Date Title Keywords
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 03.28.13 China’s Demography and its Implications
Il Houng Lee, Xu Qingjun, Murtaza Syed
In coming decades, China will undergo a notable demographic transformation, with its old-age dependency ratio doubling to 24 percent by 2030 and rising even more precipitously thereafter. This paper uses the permanent income hypothesis to reassess... 		Labor, Finance, Savings
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 03.27.13 How Effective are Macroprudential Policies in China?
Bin Wang, Tao Sun
This paper investigates macroprudential policies and their role in containing systemic risk in China. It shows that China faces systemic risk in both the time (procyclicality) and cross-sectional (contagion) dimensions. The former is reflected as credit... 		Banking, Financial Crisis, Macroeconomic Policy
World Bank 03.27.13 China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society
Can China’s growth rate still be among the highest in the world even if it slows from its current pace? And can it maintain this rapid growth with little disruption to the world, the environment, and the fabric of its own society? This report answers... 		Economic Growth, Economic Development
BSR 03.7.13 Between the Lines: Listening to Female Factory Workers in China
Women are crucial to China’s manufacturing sector. While women comprise more than 44% of the overall workforce, they represent about 60% of workers who migrate from rural areas to cities to work in factories. These female workers are diverse, with needs... 		Workers’ Rights, Women’s Rights, Working Women, Factories, Migrant Labor
Population Council 03.1.13 Population, Policy, and Politics
Wang Feng, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu
One of the main puzzles of modern population and social history is why, among all countries confronting rapid population growth in the second half of the twentieth century, China chose to adopt an extreme measure of birth control known as the one-child... 		One-Child Policy, Population, Family Planning
Committee to Protect Journalists 02.28.13 Challenged in China
David Schlesinger, Sophie Beach, Madeline Earp, and Danny O'Brien
As Xi Jinping takes office as president of China, the citizenry he governs is more sophisticated and interconnected than any before, largely because of the Internet. A complex digital censorship system—combined with a more traditional approach to media... 		Journalism, Internet, Censorship, Press Freedom
International Crisis Group 02.27.13 China’s Central Asia Problem
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China and its Central Asian neighbors have developed a close relationship, initially economic but increasingly also political and security. Energy, precious metals, and other natural resources flow into China from... 		Central Asia, Security, China-Central Asia Relations, Economy, International Relations
Cato Institute 01.8.13 China, America, and the Pivot to Asia
Justin Logan
Despite the United States’ focus on the Middle East and the Islamic world for the past decade, the most important international political developments in the coming years are likely to happen in Asia. The Obama administration has promoted a “pivot to... 		Military, Asia-U.S. Relations, Economic Development
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 11.27.12 Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?
Il Houng Lee, Murtaza Syed, Liu Xueyan
Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It finds that China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging markets, but its economic growth rates stand out, partly due... 		Investment, Welfare, Economic Model
European Council on Foreign Relations 11.8.12 China 3.0
Edited by Mark Leonard
China’s once-a-decade leadership change is currently underway in Beijing. The new leaders will take power at a crucial time for China, as it enters the third stage of its development since the revolution. How they deal with the challenges ahead will not... 		Leadership Transition, Social Stability, Reform