Organization Date Title Keywords
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 04.28.11 Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth—Implications for Latin America
Yongzhen Yu
Major mining commodity prices are inherently volatile and cyclical. High levels of investment in China have been a key driver in the strong world demand for minerals and metals over the past decade. The urbanization and industrialization of China has... 		Economic Growth, Latin America, Mining
chinadialogue 04.27.11 China’s Green Revolution
Isabel Hilton, Olivia Boyd, Tan Copsey, Hu Angang, Liang Jiaochen, Liu Jianqiang, Shin Wei Ng, Linden Ellis, Thomas Ho, Sam Geall
In March, China officially adopted its Twelfth Five-Year Plan, a blueprint for the country’s development from 2011 to 2015. Its green targets will shape China’s action on the environment over the next five years. To mark the occasion, chinadialogue has... 		Sustainability, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Policy
World Bank 04.1.11 Diagnosing Development Bottlenecks: China and India
Wei Li, Taye Mengistae, and Lixin Colin Xu
Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stood more than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity advantage... 		Development, Economic Policy, India, Infrastructure
World Bank 03.1.11 How Do Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters Drive China’s Rapid Development?
Douglas Zhihua Zeng
In the past thirty years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development “miracle” in human history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned from China... 		Economic Growth, Development, Special Economic Zones
Landesa 02.1.11 A Seventeen-Province Survey of Rural Land Rights in China
China continues to boost economic development in the countryside by extending secure land tenure rights to its 200 million farming families, according to findings from a seventeen-province survey, published in the 2011 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences... 		Land Tenure Rights, Farming, Reform and Opening-Up
World Bank 01.1.11 Reducing Inequality for Shared Growth in China: Strategy and Policy Options for Guangdong Province
This report is the result of a partnership of the World Bank and the Guangdong provincial government to assess economic and regional inequality in Guangdong. It defines three major types of inequality: Absolute poverty, Inequality of Opportunity, and... 		Inequality, Economic Growth
World Bank 12.1.10 Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural to Urban Migration
John Giles, Dewen Wang, and Changbao Zhao
Support from the family continues to be an important source of support for the rural elderly, particularly the rural elderly over seventy years of age. Decline in likelihood of co-residence with, or in close proximity to, adult children raises the... 		Aging Population, Elderly, Migration, Pensions
World Bank 12.1.10 The Role of Trade Costs in Global Production Networks: Evidence from China’s Processing Trade Regime
Alyson C. Ma and Ari Van Assche
This paper uses data from China's processing trade regime to analyze the role of trade costs on trade within global production networks (GPNs). Under this regime, firms are granted duty exemptions on imported inputs as long as they are used solely for... 		Global Production Networks, Imports and Exports, Manufacturing, Trade
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 12.1.10 Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu, and Eswar Prasad
China’s household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-savings profile has become U-shaped. The authors find that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms help explain both of these phenomena. Using a panel of Chinese... 		Savings
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 12.1.10 Transforming China: Insights from the Japanese Experience of the 1980s
Papa N'Diaye
China is poised on the brink of a transition to a service-based economy. The Japanese experience of the 1980s provides several insights about the way to manage such a transition and the downsides to avoid. In particular Japan offers useful insights on (1... 		Economic Growth, Japan