In the last decade, over one hundred university towns have been constructed in China,
housing and employing millions of students and teachers. However, very little is known …

Partnerships emerge as part of an environmental governance paradigm shift towards less
hierarchical, more collaborative, and non-regulative steering arrangements. This paper …

Land reforms have been critical to the development of Chinese capitalism over the last
several decades, yet land in China remains publicly owned. This book explores the political …

The miracle growth of the Chinese economy has decreased from a compound annual
growth rate of 10% to less than 7% in 2015. The two engines of growth-export on a scale …

At a time when many Western standard recipes for economic policy are losing credibility, it is
imperative to step back from past orthodox explanations and rethink the unconventional …

How does centralization or decentralization in government affect regional development?
This paper draws upon a quasi-natural experiment in China's political hierarchy from the …

The purpose of this paper seeks to investigate the impact that environmental target
constraints imposed by local governments have on the quality of economic development. In …

Why do countries keep their exchange rates weak and undervalued? This article argues that
domestic politics is more important than systemic factors, but existing domestic political …

To realise the targets for controlling greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, China has issued
three batches of low-carbon pilot programme since 2010. In this paper, we estimate the …