Table of Contents

Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, and Xiaobo Zhang: Overview: The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges
Part 1: The China Model
1: Xiaopeng Luo: From a Manipulated Revolution to Manipulated Marketisation: A Logic of the Chinese Model
2: Joseph Stiglitz: Transition to a Market Economy: Explaining the Successes and Failures
3: Chen Zongsheng: Chinese Residents' Rising Income Growth and Distribution Inequality
4: Edwin Lim: The Influence of Foreign Economists in the Early Stages of China's Reforms
5: Pranab Bardhan: China and India: The Pattern of Recent Growth and Governance in a Comparative Political Economy Perspective
Part 2: Future Prospects for China
6: Simon Cox: Will China Continue to Prosper?
7: Nathaniel Grotte and Robert Fogel: China: Prospects for Future Growth
8: Dwight Perkins: China's Future Performance and Development Challenges
9: Ligang Song: Rebalancing China's Growth
10: Michael Spence: China's Middle Income Transition and Evolving Inclusive Growth Strategy
11: Yanrui Wu: China's Consumer Revolution
12: Guoqiang Tian: Future Strategy for Growth and Inclusion
Part 3: China and the Global Economy
13: Peter Robertson: The Global Impact of China's Growth
14: Gordon Hanson: Effects of China's Trade on Other Countries
15: Dong He: The Internationalisation of the Renminbi
16: Chad Bown: Antidumping and Other Trade Disputes
17: Stephen Smith and Yao Pan: US-China Economic Relations
18: Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya Mattoo: China and the WTO
19: Deborah Brautigam: China's Aid Policy
Part 4: Trade and the Chinese Economy
20: Menzie Chinn: The Chinese Exchange Rate and Global Imbalances
21: John Whalley and Jing Wang: Using Tax Based Instruments for Innovative China's Trade Rebalancing
22: Kym Anderson: China's Evolving Trade Composition
23: Bin Xu: Trade Policy Reform and Trade Volume
24: Ann Harrison: Trade and Industrial Policy: China in the 1990s to Today
Part 5: Macroeconomics and Finance
25: Ross Garnaut: China: International Macro-economic Impact of Domestic Change
26: Roger Gordon: Chinese Tax Structure
27: Shuanglin Lin: Government Expenditures
28: Dennis Tao Yang and Guonan Ma: China's High Saving Puzzle
29: Eswar Prasad and Boyang Zhang: Monetary Policy in China
30: Feng Lu: China's Inflation in the Post-Reform Period
31: Yiping Huang: Local Government Debts
32: Nouriel Roubini and Adam Wolfe: China is Headed for a Financial Crisis and a Sharp Slowdown
33: Jun 'QJ' Qian and Franklin Allen: How Can China's Financial System Help Transform its Economy?
Part 6: Urbanization
34: Vernon Henderson: Urbanization in China
35: Lina Song: Urban Wages in China
36: David Dollar: Local Investment Climates and Competition among Cities
37: Yongheng Deng: The Value of Land and Housing in China's Residential Market
38: Zheng Song: The Urban Pension System
Part 7: Industry and Markets
39: Justin Yifu Lin: Development Strategy and Industrialization
40: Loren Brandt: Industrial Upgrading and Productivity Growth in China
41: Jici Wang: Making Clusters Innovative? A Chinese Observation
42: Victor Nee and Sonja Opper: Markets and Institutional Change in China
43: Zhigang Tao, Julan Du, and Yi Lu: Economic Institutions and their Impacts on Firm Strategies and Performance
44: Hanming Fang: Insurance Markets in China
45: Weiying Zhang: The Future of Private and State-owned Enterprises in China
46: Yasheng Huang: Political Economy of Privatization in China
Part 8: Agriculture and Rural Development
47: Laixiang Sun: Food Security and Agriculture in China
48: Funing Zhong: Food Security in China: Historic and Future Perspectives: How does China feed its People?
49: Keijiro Kei Otsuka: Farm Size and Long-Term Prospects for Chinese Agriculture
50: Scott Rozelle and Jikan Huang: Agriculture R&D and Extension
51: Calum Turvey: Rural Credit in China
52: Huang Zuhui: Farmer Cooperatives in China: Development and Diversification
53: Nancy Qian: Village Governance in China
54: Loren Brandt: Local Governance and Rural Public Good Provision
Part 9: Land, Infrastructure, and Environment
55: Chengri Ding: Land and Development in China
56: Sylvie Démurger: Infrastructure in China
57: Trevor Houser: Doing Good While Doing Well: China's Search for Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth
58: Ximing Cai and Michelle Miro: Sustainable Water Resources Management in China: Critical Issues and Opportunities for Policy Reforms
59: Hua Wang: Benefit-Cost Analysis of Ambient Water Quality Improvement in China
60: Ye Qi: Climate Change
Part 10: Population and Labor
61: Cai Fang: What Challenges is Demographic Transition Bringing to China's Growth?
62: Xin Meng: Rural-Urban Migration in China
63: Yang Yao: The Lewis Turning Point: Is There a Labor Shortage in China?
64: Yaohui Zhao: Labor and Employment in China
Part 11: Dimensions of Wellbeing and Inequality
65: Richard Easterlin: China's Well-Being Since 1990
66: Xi Chen: Relative Deprivation in China
67: Albert Park and Wang Sangui: Poverty
68: Carl Riskin: Inequality and the Reform Era in China
69: John Knight: Inequality in China
70: Hongbin Cai: Overcoming the Middle-income Trap in China: From the Perspective of Social Mobility
71: Wan BaoRui: Trends in Food Consumption and Nutrition in China
72: Douglas Almond: The Great Chinese Famine
73: Martin Ravallion: An Emerging New Form of Social Protection in 21st Century China
Part 12: Health and Education
74: Gordon Liu and Samuel Krumholz: Economics of Health Transitions in China
75: Ling Zhu: The Changing Landscape of Rural Health Services in China
76: James Heckman and Junjian Yi: Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
77: Haizheng Li and Qinyi Liu: Human Capital: Schooling
78: Wang Rong: Commanding Heights: The State and Higher Education in China
79: Yingui Qian: Economics and Business Education in China
Part 13: Gender Equity
80: Xiao-yuan Dong: Gender and China's Development
81: Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng: High Sex Ratio in China: Causes and Consequences
82: Yu Xie: Gender and Family
83: Alan de Brauw: Women and Agricultural Labor in China
Part 14: Regional Divergence in China
84: Kai-yuen Tsui: Regional Divergence
85: Chenggang Xu: China's Political-Economic Institution: Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism (RDA)
86: Du Ying: China's Regional Development Strategy
Part 15: China's Provinces: Selected Perspectives
87: Dai Peikun: Anhui: Economic and Social Development
88: Guo Wanda: Guangdong: Maintaining Leadership in China's Next Round of Reforms
89: Cui Zhongren: Guangxi: Rapid Development
90: Yang Chenhua: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: Strategies and Considerations of Development
91: Futian Qu: Jiangsu: Pattern Change and Structural Adjustment
92: Qu Dongyu: Ningxia: Poverty Alleviation and Development
93: Zhang Chuanting: Shandong: Scientific Development and New Prospects
94: Hi Tang Jie: Shenzhen: From Labor-Intensive to Innovation-driven Economic Growth
95: Changwen Zhao: Sichuan: A West-China Province with Fast Development and Change
96: Chen Zongsheng: Tianjin: The Third Growth Pole of China
97: Xie Qingsheng: Western Regions: Ideas of Cultural Industry Development
98: Jinchuan Shi: Zhejiang: Economic Development

About the Author

The editors are four global leaders in Chinese economic analysis and policy who between them have held or hold the following positions: Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute; Co-Editor, China Economic Review; President Chinese Economists Society; Assistant Director of Research at the IMF; Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank; and Professors of Economics at Ivy League Universities.

Reviews

fascinating work and a worthy addition to any reference library collection
*Matt Treadwell, Reference Reviews*