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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition articles from September 2006
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition archives from September 2006
Editors' summary.(report on China's banking sector, return on investment and industrial productivity)(Editorial)(Conference notes)
September 22, 2006... THE BROOKINGS PANEL ON Economic Activity held its eighty-second conference in Washington, D.C., on September 7 and 8, 2006. This issue of the Brookings Papers includes the papers and discussions presented at the conference. All three papers in...
The sources and sustainability of China's economic growth.
September 22, 2006... IN 1978, AT THE outset of its economic reform, China was the world's tenth-largest economy, with a GDP of about $150 billion, or less than 6 percent of U.S. GDP at the time. By 2005, however, China's economy, at $2.2 trillion, had grown to...
The return to capital in China.
September 22, 2006... CHINA HAS ONE of the highest investment rates in the world, over 40 percent of its GDP in recent years. A natural question to ask is: Does China invest too much? On the one hand, China is still a low-income economy, with a capital-labor ratio...
The contradiction in China's gradualist banking reforms.
September 22, 2006... DURING CHINA'S TWO and a half decades of economic reform, it has often been observed that the bank-dominated financial system is the economy's Achilles' heel. Since 2003, China's central government has reformed the largest state-owned...