Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2015

Impacts of Village Banking in Poor Villages in China: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Albert PARK , Cai SHU, Sangui WANG
This study evaluates the impact of a randomized control trial (RCT) in China that introduced externally funded village credit funds in poor, rural villages. In contrast to recent RCT-based studies that have failed to find evidence of significant increases in income from microfinance interventions, w...
Keywords: Microfinance, program evaluations, randomized control trial
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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2015

Housing vacancy rate and urbanization in China

Gan LI
In recent years, the phenomenon of housing vacancy rate (HVR) has attracted considerable attention, especially concerning unjustified expansions of Chinese cities. /e aforementioned trend is disadvantageous in that it will ultimately lead to tremendous wastage of valuable land that could otherwise b...
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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown

Davin CHOR, Filipe CAMPANTE , Bingjing LI
We study how adverse economic shocks influence political outcomes in authoritarian regimes in strong states, by examining the 2013-2015 export slowdown in China. We exploit detailed customs data and the variation they reveal about Chinese prefectures’ underlying exposure to the global trade slowdo...
Keywords: Political economy, export slowdown, economic shocks
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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

Growing Pains in Chinese Social Security System

Hanming FANG, Jingyi ZHANG
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Economic Transformation of Asia

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May 2016

To Stay or to Migrate? The One-child Policy, Work-based Migration and Land Entitlement in China

Yin-Chi WANG, Pei-Ju LIAO, Wang PING , Chong Kee YIP
With a dynamic macroeconomic model built to tailor the institutions of China, this paper studies how fertility control and migration policies shaped the rural-urban migration pattern and the economic development of China. Different from the reduced-form approach adopted by most of the existing liter...
Keywords: Rural-Urban Migration, Fertility, urbanization, development
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