"China's increasing policy shift towards more sustainable growth"

Prud'homme, Dan (2010): "China's increasing policy shift towards more sustainable growth".

Abstract

Many have increasingly questioned if and how Chinese policy has evolved or will evolve to ensure that the country’s development is not only focused on immediate economic growth, but also economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. This paper addresses this question by tracing key issues in China’s past and current path to development. It finds that China is clearly increasingly shifting its policies to foster more sustainable growth, which provides a good indication that its upcoming policies will head in the same positive direction.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: China's sustainable development; China's development policy; China's economic policy; China's social policy; China's environmental policy; China's trade policy; Dan Prud'homme; China's Five Year Plans; China's quality and balanced growth
• Subjects: P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P11 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O53 - Asia including Middle East; P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P21 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade

References

“China’s Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals.” United Nations in China and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, 2008 Report.

World Bank’s World Development Indicators for China. URL: http://data.worldbank.org/country/china

Branstetter, Lee and Nicholas Lardy. “China’s Embrace of Globalization.” NBER Working Paper No. W12373. July 2006.

Speech of Fu Ziying, Vice Minister of MOFCOM, at the 5th Annual Conference of China’s Import and Export Enterprises. April 04, 2007.

Chen, Shaohua and Martin Ravallion. “The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty.” World Bank, August 26, 2008.

Shaohua, Chen and Ravallion, Martin. “Learning from Success: Understanding China’s (uneven) progress against poverty.” Finance and Development, December 2004.

“China’s New Trade Issues in The Post-WTO Accession Era.” Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank. 2009.