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  The Asian drivers: financial flows into and out of Asia, and implications for developing countries

  Asian Drivers Programme, Institute of Development Studies, 2005

  This paper explores the current and potential future impact of Asia's financial flows for the rest of the world. The paper draws out the main types of financial flows to and from Asia, and points out their financial and macroeconomic implications for developing countries. In addition, the authors make suggestions for potential of future research.
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  China's FDI and non-FDI economies and the sustainability of future High Chinese growth

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China’s recent rapid economic growth using a two stage growth accounting approach.Recent econometric literature focuses on testing whether Chinese growth depends on inward FDI rather than measuring the contribution.
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  Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: macroeconomic impact of an aging population in a highly open economy

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2006

  This paper argues that if policies are left unchanged, population ageing could adversely affect growth and living standards in Hong Kong. While higher labour productivity growth and increased migration of younger skilled workers from the Chinese mainland, would attenuate the economic impact of ageing, they would not offset it fully.
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  Neither a borrower nor a lender: does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  China in the past few years has emerged as a net foreign creditor on the international scene with net foreign assets slightly greater than zero percent of wealth. This paper starts from the fact that this is surprising given that China is a relatively poor country with a capital-labour ratio about one-fifth the world average and one-tenth the U.S. level.
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  China's fiscal system: a work in progress

  International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2005

  This paper argues that unless China begins to tackle more systematically the serious problems that have emerged in the finances of its various systems of sub-national government, the problems caused by the current unsatisfactory system will increasingly distort resource allocation, increase distributional tensions and slow down the growth of the Chinese economy.The paper:discusses the s
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  Cuba's economic future: the search for models

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2005

  This paper considers the inevitable shift of Cuba from a Marxist to a market-oriented economy.
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  Domestic money transfer services for migrant workers in China

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2005

  This document is the executive summary of a study which aims to understand the demand for and supply of the remittance services for migrant workers in China in order to recommend ways to improve the remittance services, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the improvement of the income and welfare of migrant workers and their families and to promote the overall income growth and equity in Chi
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  Fiscal decentralisation and economic growth: a comparative study of China and India

  International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2005

  There are some obvious differences in the political systems of India and China, but there are also similarities in their approaches to decentralisation, such as poor service delivery and the lack of fiscal discipline that threaten the ability of both countries to sustain high rates of economic growth.
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  China's ownership transformation: processes, outcomes, prospects

  International Finance Corporation, 2005

  This study sheds new light on the progress that China has made in enterprise restructuring and privatisation, known as Gaizhi, a Chinese term meaning “transforming the system,”. It also focuses on the challenges that enterprises, investors, and governments are facing in the process.
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  Environmental policy and the location of foreign direct investment in China

  China Center for Economic Research, Beijing, 2005

  Since the inception of market orientated reforms in 1978, China has emerged as a major recipient of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Recent studies suggest that environmental regulations are an important factor in an investor’s choice of location. This is in accordance with the ‘pollution haven hypothesis’, which states that firms will set up in regions with relaxed environmental standards.

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