Political Geography: China / Topic: International Political Economy

Author:: Jian Sun
Publication Date:: 02-1999
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: United Nations University
Abstract:: Since the beginning of the Chinese economic reforms in 1978, there has been a series of effort to reform the labour compensation practice in state-owned enterprises to strengthen the link between pay and productivity. Despite the reforms, however, rapid increases in wage rates occurred in state-owned enterprises. Moreover, although state-owned enterprises have much lower productivity gains than non-state enterprises, they pay substantially higher wages and have faster wage growth.
Topic:: Economics, Globalization, Industrial Policy, and International Political Economy
Political Geography:: China and Asia

Author:: Michel Oksenberg and Elizabeth Economy
Publication Date:: 04-1998
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Council on Foreign Relations
Abstract:: The rise of China in world affairs is a major feature of our era. An increasingly contentious debate has erupted in the United States over how to respond to this development. Figuring out a successful policy toward China is no easy task, but any sound strategy must be rooted in a sense of history.
Topic:: International Political Economy
Political Geography:: United States, China, and Asia

Author:: K.C. Fung and Lawrence Lau
Publication Date:: 05-1997
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Abstract:: China's presence in the world economy continues to grow and deepen. The foreign sector of China plays an important and multifaceted role in the country's economic development. At the same time, China's expanded role in the world economy is beneficial to all its trading partners. Regions that trade with China benefit from cheaper and more varied imported consumer goods, raw materials, and intermediate products. China also provides a large and growing export market. While the entry of any major trading nation in the global trading system can create a process of adjustment, the outcome is fundamentally a win-win situation. It is a simple but powerful lesson from economics that freer international trade and investments benefit all parties concerned.
Topic:: International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: China and Asia

Author:: Robert Rubin
Publication Date:: 10-1997
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Council on Foreign Relations
Abstract:: What I would like to do is use our time together this morning to discuss the importance of prosperity and growth in Asia to our own economic well-being and to discuss the challenges and opportunities in our relationship with China--subjects that are on a great many minds because of the recent financial instability in Southeast Asia and China's President Jiang Zemin's landmark visit to the United States.
Topic:: Emerging Markets and International Political Economy
Political Geography:: United States, China, East Asia, and Southeast Asia

Author:: K.C. Fung and Lawrence Lau
Publication Date:: 04-1996
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Abstract:: There are huge discrepancies between the official Chinese and U.S. estimates of the bilateral trade balance. The discrepancies are caused by different treatments accorded to re-exports through Hong Kong, re-export markups, and trade in services. Deficit-shifting between China, on the one hand, and Hong Kong and Taiwan, on the other, due to direct investment in China from Taiwan and Hong Kong, is partly responsible for the growth in the China United States bilateral trade deficit.
Topic:: International Political Economy and International Trade and Finance
Political Geography:: United States, China, Taiwan, Asia, and Hong Kong

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