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China
Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development Strategies
1st Edition - August 18, 2014
Author: Yanqing Jiang
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9781843347620
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eBook ISBN:9781780634432
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Trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) play a crucial role in shaping China’s development strategies. The development of China’s economy creates strong pressures for co…Read more
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Trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) play a crucial role in shaping China’s development strategies. The development of China’s economy creates strong pressures for continuous restructuring. <I>China</I> therefore explores how trade and FDI affect China’s development strategies regarding the process and pattern of restructuring. The book aims to provide the reader with findings that shed new light on the related issues and problems. The first chapter introduces the topics, and subsequent chapters enter into theoretical discussion and empirical analysis of trade, FDI, and development strategies, followed by a concluding final chapter.
Based on a rigorous theoretical framework
Applies various statistical and econometric methods
Uses rich and comprehensive data
Academic researchers; students and teachers of economics, business and other related social sciences; and general readers who are interested in learning about the Chinese economy
List of abbreviations
About the author
1: Introduction
Abstract
2: Regional growth and its decomposition
Abstract
Introduction
A theoretical framework for output decomposition
Productivity growth
Extensive versus intensive growth
Interregional inequality
Concluding remarks
3: Unbalanced development in China
Abstract
Introduction and background
An analytical framework
Empirical evidence
The persistence of interregional inequality: further discussion
Concluding remarks
Notes
4: Potential effects of foreign trade on development
Abstract
Introduction
China’s foreign trade: a summary of policy and performance
Basic approaches and their implications
A preliminary empirical analysis
Concluding remarks
5: Potential effects of foreign direct investment on development
Abstract
Introduction
Effects of FDI and the mechanisms
A preliminary model
Preliminary empirical analysis and results
Concluding remarks
6: Interregional disparity and the development of inland regions
Abstract
Introduction
The model
The variables and data
Regressions and results
Concluding remarks
7: Economic change and restructuring, dual economy, and development strategies
Abstract
Introduction
A theoretical model
Decomposition of productivity growth
Dual economy: Lewis growth model and China
Some empirical evidence
Concluding remarks
8: Static and dynamic comparative advantages
Abstract
Introduction
A dynamic Ricardian model
Implications for China
Structural transformation and comparative advantage in China
Concluding remarks
Notes
9: Transaction efficiency and patterns of specialization
Abstract
Introduction
Inframarginal analysis of the Ricardian model: a brief recap
Transaction efficiency and inequality: a theoretical model
Concluding remarks
10: Economies of scale and industrial agglomeration
Abstract
Introduction
Spatial agglomeration and regional development: theoretical considerations
Regional specialization and industrial agglomeration in China
Spatial concentration of industries
Openness and industrial agglomeration
Concluding remarks
Notes
11: Higher education and human capital mobility
Abstract
Introduction
The issue and the model
The sample, data, and variables
Empirical results and discussions
Concluding remarks
Notes
12: Environmental factors and sustainable development
Abstract
Introduction
The green Solow model
Potential impacts of foreign trade and FDI on the environment
Strategic interaction in environmental protection efforts
Output growth, TFP growth, and pollution
Pollution and openness to foreign tradeand FDI
Concluding remarks
13: Knowledge economy and knowledge-based development: a tentative discussion
Abstract
Index
No. of pages: 232
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: August 18, 2014
Imprint: Chandos Publishing
Hardback ISBN: 9781843347620
eBook ISBN: 9781780634432
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Yanqing Jiang
Yanqing Jiang is associate professor at Shanghai International Studies University, in Shanghai, China. His recent research is mainly on China’s opening up, growth and development. He started his research in this area in 2004 when he was affiliated to the Hanken School of Economics and the Helsinki Centre of Economic Research as a doctoral researcher in Helsinki, Finland. He has published many articles on China in various refereed journals.