Economic Development

This article finds that the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fastest growing economies during the period since the putting forward of the neo-liberal ‘Washington Consensus’ ...

The decisive global role being played by China in leading the way in the development of renewable energy is now being recognised in the Western ...

An immense human catastrophe is threatening in parts of Africa and in Yemen. As the Washington Post wrote in February: "The world is in the grip ...

Despite increasing media reporting on China’s economy there is still a fundamental underestimation of the sheer scale of China’s economic growth. It is not generally ...

China's key annual "two sessions," the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, reaffirmed China's strategic medium term goal to create a "moderately prosperous ...

The importance of the Belt and Road (B&R) summit for China and participating countries is well known. What is not so widely grasped is that ...

​The U.S. Congress has debated expressing its concern over the issue of ‘human rights’ in China - an  example can be found in the US House ...

The annual BRICS summit, hosted by China in Xiamen on 3-5 September, is the second of two major events in China this year focused on ...

​Attempts are sometimes made to claim that China’s gigantic economic growth, the greatest in a major economy in human history, and its measurable increases in household ...

The following article analyses in detail the relation between economic growth and human well-being. Its focus is a comparison of China with developing and advanced ...