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China
  • Capital: Beijing
  • Population: 1330044000
  • Size: 9596960.0 Km2

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Problems in measurements of growth and inequality
A. Deaton / United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2003
This paper empirically explores the contradictions and inadequacies of measurements of growth and inequality between national accounts and surveys. It explores the reasons as to why there is divergence of results from national account...
Developing an urban poverty profile for China
A. Hussain / International Labour Organization, 2003
Official figures put the number of urban poor in China at 14 million. This paper compares these figures to an analysis based on provincial poverty lines calculated according to best international practice from the NSB urban household ...
Water pollution abatement by Chinese industry : cost estimates and policy implications / Susmita Dasgupta ... [et al.]
Susmita Dasgupta / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
Data on pollution abatement costs in Chinese industry suggest that the benefits of stricter discharge standards should be weighed carefully against the costs. China's current regulatory system provides an economic incentive to abate b...
Pricing industrial pollution in China : an econometric analysis of the levy system
Hua Wang; David Wheeler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
An analysis of provincial water pollution control shows that China's pollution levy system has been working much better than is commonly believed. Wang and Wheeler analyze China's experience with the water pollution levy, an em...
Citizen complaints as environmental indicators : evidence from China
Susmita Dasgupta; David Wheeler / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
China's experience shows the problem of relying on citizen complaints for guidance in addressing pollution monitoring resources are scarce. Visible pollutants get too much attention and communities with low levels of literacy get too ...
The FDI-led growth hypothesis: further econometric evidence from China
J. Shan; Garry. Gang-Tian; F. Sun / National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997
Despite a large volume of econometric literature on the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, the question of causality linkage between them has only been investigated very recently. Th...
Agricultural statistics for China, 1949-1990
China Dimensions, 1999
China County-Level Data on Population (1990 Census) and Agriculture, Keyed to 1:1M GIS Map
China Dimensions, 1999
Outflows of capital from China
David Wall / OECD Development Centre, 1997
While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United Sta...
Vertical intra - industry trade between China and OECD countries
Lisbeth Hellvin / OECD Development Centre, 1996
This paper examines the issue of intra-industry trade in a transition economy. We address the question of whether the market-opening reforms in China have resulted in an increasing exchange of similar products, or whether foreign trad...
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