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A place to find news, observations, statistics, information on undergraduate (BSc and BA economics) postgraduate (MSc economics) and academic analysis of important issues for China's economy including economic growth, inequality, stockmarket, shares, exch
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The Great "Social Unrest" in China mystery
In my recent experience with Chinese economists I have found them and indeed other academics with an interest in China remarkably reluctant to mention the "social unrest" word in conjunction with a global recession.Given China's reliance on exports a...
EPI "China trade costs jobs in every state"
More China bashing or more to it? The Economic Policy Institute report that Chinese trade is causing job losses in every state of the US. The counter arguments are too numerous to go into but a basic trade text book should suffice.China trade costs ...
"Wrong number": On the reliability of Chinese Data
Following on the heals of the last post and thanks to Chinalawblog for the pointer.As an economist who works with large amounts of Chinese data this issue has arisen many many times without a satisfactory solution. The Economist discusses this issue...
China's economic development in pictures
This month the National Geographic has a "China Special". The photographs are always of the very highest quality and the story is a good one.There is a surprising amount of economics in the text and correctly so.China's Journey [National Geographic]...
Are There Lessons for Africa from China's Success Against Poverty?
A recent World Bank working paper considers the differences and similarities between China and Africa and how the former managed to take millions out of poverty and the latter did not.The key line for me from the abstract is in bold and is certainly ...
The great migration of China
Slate recently published an excellent series of articles from rural China.The beauty of these stories is that they provide the missing pieces between economic articles that take vast microeconomic datasets and often come up with some counter-intuitiv...
THe Growth in Higher Education in China and the Global Implications
Higher education is a topic we have covered a great deal in this blog.This new paper by John Whalley and others looks at the growth in higher education in China and comments on the global implications. Admissions officers everywhere need to read thi...
Poverty is China - RDE Special Issue
The latest issue of "Review of Development Economics" (a decent development journal) has a special section of 3 papers looking at poverty in China.----------------------------------------------------------Special Section: Poverty and Inequality in Ch...
