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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction and overview -- 2 Iron and steel trade in Southeast Asia and the world -- 3 Intensity of steel use and environments in Southeast Asia -- 4 China's metals industry (I) -- 5 China's metals industry (II) -- 6 World demand for metals -- 7 Analysis of steel prices -- 8 Steel price projections -- 9 Trade complementarity: Western Australia and Korea -- Appendix -- Index.

Preface Introduction Measuring China's Capital Stock Revisiting the Productivity Debate New Economy, Productivity and Growth New Economy and Efficiency among the Regions Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Growth Efficiency of Foreign-funded and Domestic Enterprises Conclusion

This article presents a review of the progress in economic restructuring in the Chinese economy. It explores the role of consumption versus investment in economic growth, trends in inequality, growth of the state and non-state sectors, and balancing between short-term and long-term development goals. It also discusses the major challenges in China's economy and hence Chinese policymakers' possible responses in the coming decade.

This article contributes to the understanding of innovative behaviour in China's large and medium-sized firms and hence the role of Chinese firms in innovation. The empirical analyses are based on firm-level survey data. Innovation has important implications not only for the transformation of the Chinese economy but also for the rest of the world as Chinese firms become increasingly active internationally. Specifically, this article explores the factors underlying the propensity, intensity and persistence of research and development (R&D) spending in Chinese firms. (China/GIGA)

China's local government debt (LGD) has recently become the focus of economic policy debates. However, information about LGD and its impact on economic growth in the Chinese economy is scarce. This paper attempts to present an empirical investigation of the impact of China's LGD on economic growth. It is probably the first of its kind to focus on China and thus contributes to the general literature on the relationship between government debt and economic growth. The paper first provides an assessment of LGD in China's regional economies, using recently released auditing statistics and other available secondary information. It then applies conventional growth analysis methods to examine the impact of LGD on regional growth in China. Various scenario and sensitivity analyses are also conducted, to accommodate the inadequacy and potentially poor quality of debt statistics. Publication