County-level fieldwork and unique data demonstrate how leadership and career incentives explain regional variation in China's economic development.

In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28

The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques

Prior to the initiation of economic reforms and trade liberalization 36 years ago, China maintained policies that kept the economy very poor, stagnant, centrall

Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a f