Abstract After decades of low-level commercial interaction, China and Latin America significantly ramped up their economic relationship in the 2000s. China has jumped to first…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract By estimating China’s foreign aid as a proxy for China’s bilateral Official Development Assistance and by analyzing its implementation structure and policy, this paper…
Abstract Is a fiscal stimulus effective? This classical question has received significant research attention since the collapse of the global financial services firm Lehman Brothers.…
Abstract The People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) balance sheet expanded more dramatically than any of its major international counterparts during the past decade. The main…
Abstract This paper examines Cambodia’s socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country’s economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict societies,…
Abstract Using industry- and micro-level data, this paper examines why Japan’s productivity growth has been slow for such a long time and how it can…
Abstract This paper analyses and assesses China’s current fiscal system, including its basic institutional arrangements, the relationship between central and local governments, and the fiscal…
Summary This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific’s new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global…
Abstract Current China–Africa relations have been statically framed: China invests in the continent and exports resources extracted by its state-owned enterprises and fuelled by…
Abstract China’ economic boom has produced a surging appetite for fossil fuels, particularly oil. To foster and sustain its economic development, China has taken…
Summary Energy is the catalyst behind Japan’s involvement in the Caspian region. Japan currently imports 99 percent of its daily oil consumption, and its neighbors…
Abstract Tokyo looks at energy security differently than does Washington, or other major global capitals. This persistent and deepening reality—so incongruously at odds with the…
Abstract The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China…
Abstract With sharply falling prices for oil and other commodities over the second half of 2008, the geostrategic and industrial implications of resource nationalism…
Abstract This paper reviews the recent evolution of thinking and evidence regarding the effectiveness of activist fiscal policy, including how policy multipliers might vary…
