Rising China in the changing world economy / edited by Liming Wang.

Papers originally presented at a two day international conference, 'China and the changing landscape of the world economy', jointly organized by the Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK) and the Irish Institute for Chinese Studies which took place at University College Dublin, in July 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Rising China and its Integration with the Changing World Economy - Wei Xia and Liming Wang -- 2. Rising China: Its Strength and Problems - Gregory C Chow -- 3. Evolution after Revolution: the Chinese {u2018}Claiming State{u2019} between History and Textbook Economics - Giuseppe Gabusi -- 4. Continental Drift: China and the Global Economic Crisis - Sangaralingam Ramesh -- 5. Chinese MNCs in Latin America - Gaston Fornes and Alan Butt-Philip -- 6. An Exploration of Pyramidal Business Groups in China - Dylan Sutherland, Lutao Ning and Jing Wang -- 7. Sustaining the Growth of China{u2019}s SMEs through ICT: Recent Experience of Policy Initiatives and Their Implementation - David H. Brown and Qi Wang -- 8. Fiscal Reform, Ownership Restructuring, and Corporate Objective in Chinese State-owned Enterprises - Da Teng -- 9. Culture Distance and Cross-border Merger and Acquisition of China: Empirical Evidence from Electricity Industry - Lei Wang -- 10. R&D, Direct Technology Transfer and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industries - Yanbing Wu -- 11. The Distribution of Income and Well-Being in Rural China: A Survey of Panel Data Sets, Studies and New Directions - Xi Chen -- 12. Determinants of China's Inter-Regional Equalization of Basic Public Services - Xuebing Tang -- 13. Does Real Effective Exchange Rate Volatility Affect Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from China - Min Ye and Siyue Liu -- 14. Cost Efficiency of Banks in China: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis - Yizhe Dong -- 15. The Effect of Historical Events on the Speed of Price Evolution Indexed by an Operational Time for China{u2019}s Futures Market - Ren Zhang, Youwei Li and Donal McKillop -- 16. Poverty in Shenzhen - Stefan Gravemeyer, Thomas Gries, and Jinjun Xue.

China's rapid and sustained growth over last thirty years has propelled it to become the world's second largest economy today and potentially the largest in the foreseeable future. As one of the first major economies pulling out of recession and the last remaining major socialist country in the world today, China presents a challenge to established thinking on the essential primacy of global capitalism and the settled nature of the world system - as China becomes more integrated into the world economy and the international system, both are themselves potentially transformed as a result of China{u2019}s involvement. This book explores a wide range of issues connected with the impact of China on the global economy and the prevailing international system. Subjects covered include China{u2019}s multinationals, international acquisitions, the exchange rate, research and development and technology transfer, China{u2019}s emerging major business groupings, and small and medium sized enterprises.