Iris Claus & Les Oxley 
China’s Economy [PDF ebook] 
A Collection of Surveys

This collection of critical surveys provides readers with a range of up-to-date work from leading scholars in the area, writing on some of the key issues facing China, as they survey the present and future challenges of the Chinese economy

* Nine papers provide detailed discussion on key aspects of the past, present and future of the Chinese economy

* Leaders in their relevant fields of scholarship tackle some of the critical issues facing China

* Contributors identify common themes, including the household registration system, urbanization, demographic transition, inequality and the sustainability of economic growth

* Articles provide a critical review of the literature and discuss policy implications and areas for future research

表中的内容

1. The Chinese Economy, Past, Present and Future 1

Iris Claus and Les Oxley

2. A Survey of Recent Research in Chinese Economic History
7

Kent Deng

3. Demographic Transition and Labour Market Changes:
Implications for Economic Development in China 25

Yang Du and Cuifen Yang

4. Pension Reform in China: Challenges and Opportunities
45

Yong Cai and Yuan Cheng

5. The Evolution of the Housing Market and Its Socioeconomic
Impacts in the Post-Reform People’s Republic of China: A
Survey of the Literature 63

Jie Chen and Xuehui Han

6. Urbanization and Urban Systems in the People’s Republic
of China: Research Findings and Policy Recommendations 83

Ming Lu and Guanghua Wan

7. Income Inequality in the People’s Republic of China:
Trends, Determinants, and Proposed Remedies 99

Chen Wang, Guanghua Wan and Dan Yang

8. The Evolving Geography of China’s Industrial
Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality
of Life 125

Siqi Zheng, Cong Sun, Ye Qi and Matthew E. Kahn

9. Innovation in China 143

Peilei Fan

10. China’s Service Trade 165

Hejing Chen and John Whalley

Index 197

关于作者

Iris Claus is a Senior Fellow, Department of Economics,
Waikato University, New Zealand. Her current research interests are
in unconventional monetary policy, taxation, financial
intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium
modeling. She is the Managing Editor for Journal Economic
Surveys and Associate Editor of Asian Economic
Papers.

Les Oxley is Professor in Economics, University of
Waikato, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor, School of Economics
and Finance, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. He is the
editor of, amongst others, Innovation, Entrepreneurship,
Geography and Growth (with P. Mc Cann, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012),
Economics and History: Surveys in Cliometrics (with D.
Greasley, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and the author of
China’s Energy Economy: Reforms, Market
Development, Factor Substitution and the Determinants of Energy
Intensity (with Hengyun Ma, 2012).