Recovery and Reconstruction following the 12 May 2008 Mw 8.0 Sichuan Earthquake will involve a large and complex series of programs, for which recent earthquake disasters provide useful lessons.
Growth in developing East Asia will decline by around one to two percentage points to around 8.5% in 2008 as a result of the unfolding financial turmoil in the US and the resulting global slowdown.
China's economic growth has begun to inch down from its record rates earlier in 2007, while food prices are lifting inflation, notes the World Bank's China Quarterly Update released today.
This paper aims at analyzing and quantifying the impact of the cost pressures on the profitability of industry, as well as the way that China's industry has responded to the pressures.
This paper discusses how China can rebalance its pattern of growth by implementing a package of policies and shows the results of a modeling exercise implementing this package using a computable general equilibrium model.
The report praises China for its success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), and recommends China to opt for policies that encourage FDI to align more with the country¡¯s new objec