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Work in Progress

“Saving and Growth in China: An Econometric Analysis of the Dynamic” (with Carl Bonham), accepted for presentation at the Singapore Economic Review Conference 2009, Singapore, August 6-8, 2009.

“The Saving Story behind China’s Trade Imbalance”  download

 

Edited Volume

with Cao Heping, Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: China’s Economic Presence (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.), 2004.  contents

 

Refereed Articles & Book Chapters

with Lu Mai, “An End to China’s Agriculture Tax,” China: An International Journal, 3(2), September 2005: 320-330.  download

“Introduction: China’s Economic Presence,” in Calla Wiemer and Heping Cao, eds, Asian Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: China’s Economic Presence (Singapore:  World Scientific Publishers), 2004: 1-18.

“The Xinjiang Economy,” Chapter 6 in Frederick Starr, ed., Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland  (New York:  M.E. Sharpe), 2004: 163-189.  download

“‘One Household / Two Systems’ and the Transition to Private Employment in China,” Pacific Economic Review 7(1), Feb. 2002: 199-219.  download

with Tian Xiuhua, “The Measurement of Small-Scale Industry for China’s GDP Accounts,” China Economic Review, 12(4), Jan. 2001: 317-322.

“State Policy and Rural Resource Allocation in China as Seen through a Hebei Province Township, 1970-1985,” World Development 22(6), June 1994: 935-947.

with Lu Mai, “Prices: The Two-Tier Transition Process,” in Walter Galenson, ed., China's Economic Reform (San Francisco: The 1990 Institute), 1993.  Published in Chinese by Social Science Documents Publishers (Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe).

"Price Reform and Structural Change: Distributional Impediments to Allocative Gains," Modern China 18, April 1992: 171-196.

with Zhao Xinghan, “Closing the Price Scissors: Reform and the Interface between Agriculture and Industry,” in Zhang Zhongli, Jan Dutta, Yao Tinggang, and Gary Jefferson (eds.), Retrospect and Prospect: American and Chinese Economists' Views on the Chinese Economy (Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), 1991.  In Chinese, English translation available.

with Liu Xiaoxuan, “Price Reform in China: The Transition to Rationality,” in M. Jan Dutta and Zhang Zhongli (eds.), China's Economic Reform, 1978-1988 (Greenwich, CT: Jai Press), 1991.

“Price Reform Stalled: An Inherent Obstacle, A Missed Opportunity,” Journal of Asian Economics 1, Fall 1990: 345-358.

“Sources of Output Growth in Rural China, the 1970s and Beyond,” in M. Jan Dutta, Pei-Kang Chang, and Shao-Kung Lin (eds.), China's Modernization and Open Economic Policy (Greenwich, CT: Jai Press), 1990.

“A Framework for Assessing Productivity Loss from Schistosomiasis,” Journal of Human Resources 23(3), Summer 1988: 320-41.

“Optimal Disease Control through Combined Use of Preventive and Curative Measures,” Journal of Development Economics 25, April 1987: 301-19.

with Fred Hung, “The Course of China's Economic Reforms, 1978-1985,” Journal of Oriental Studies, XXIII(1), 1985: 63-81.

 

Book Reviews

Lin, Justin Yifu, Cai Fang, Li Zhou, The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press), in China Review International 5(2), Fall 1998: 483-6.

Naughton, Barry, Growing out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995), in China Review International 4(1), Spring 1997: 219-220.

Hsueh Tien-tung, Sung Yun-wing, and Yu Jingyuan (eds.), Studies on Economic Reforms and Development in the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1993), in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 8(2), Nov. 1994: 79-80.

 

Translation

Liu Guoguang, "China's Current Economic Development Situation and Prospects," Journal of Asian Economics 4, Fall 1993: 249-54.