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What is the goal of China's 2011-2020 Anti-Poverty ProgramWhy do Li and Sicular (2014) believe China's minimum wage hasnot been effective in reducing inequality and poverty?What has happened to life expectancy and education levels inChina since reforms?What does the Human Development index measure? How has China'saverage HDI changed in China since reforms? How does the HDI inChina compare to the global average?What does the Harrod-Domar model say about the relationshipbetween investment and growth? What are the weaknesses of theHarrod-Domar model?What is the "classical" progression of structural change in adeveloping economy?How did the manipulation of prices during China's socialist eradistort the pattern of structural change? What does the patternlook like when evaluated at market (2004) prices?What is the largest sector in China today by share of GDP?How does China's pattern of structural change differ from the"classical" progression? How is that related to globalization?Why do some believe there is a housing bubble in Chinatoday?How does the Chinese government explain the rapid expansion ofthe housing market?Describe the four stages of the demographic transition.What is the Total Fertility Rate? The Birth Rate?In what two ways has China deviated from the standarddemographic transition model?How has China’s TFR compared to other Asian countries?What was the One Child Policy? How has enforcement changed overtime?What were some major critiques of China’s fertility policy?What defines a stable equilibrium in the marriage market?Why would a gender imbalance intensify competition in themarriage market?What positive economic effects do Wei and Zhang (2011) observeas a result of China's skewed sex ratio?What is the dependency ratio? How and why will China'sdependency ratio be changing in the next few years?What "marginal" changes were made to reform urban labor marketsin the initial phase of reforms?Who were the xiagang?What share of the population was employed in the state sectorbefore 1978?How did the average urban worker get a job during that time?What is the Lewisian Turning Point (LTP)?Use the appropriate diagram to explain what happens to wages asdemand for industrial labor grows before the LTP and then after theLTP.Is there strong evidence to support the existence of an LTP inChina? What else might explain rising wages?Why can the returns to education be used as evidence ofefficient labor markets?What is a Mincer equation?How have rising returns to education affect educationalachievement in China?Why is migration an indication of healthy labor markets?Why did labor reforms create a need to reform China's socialsecurity system?What was the role of the agricultural collective in duringChina's Socialist Era?According to Lin, how did the collectives create a “prisoners’dilemma?” What effect did this have on agriculturalproductivity?What is a dominant strategy? What is a Nash Equilibrium?Why did China's TVEs grow so quickly?What are the three "models" of TVEs we discussed in class? Howwould you characterize each one?Why did the rapid growth of TVEs end?What information asymmetry problem complicated TVEprivatization?What mechanism did the gov't design to solve this problem?What is individual rationality? What is incentivecompatibility?What are non-performing loans? How are they related to SOEreform?What is “Grasping the large, letting go the small?”Why was it important to increase SOEs’ marginal retentionrates?What was the Company Law?What is SASAC and why was it created?What share of output is accounted for by SOEs today?What are the four elements that must be changed to turn asocialist enterprise into a “capitalist” one?What are the theoretical advantages of corporatization? How didit work in practice?What is the difference between market-based and control-basedmodels of corporate governance? Which model best fits governance inChina?What is was the Anti-Monopoly Law? Why do some believe it hasnot been enforced effectively?What is "creative destruction"? Why might the continuedprominence of SOEs in China limit the potential for "creativedestruction"?How does China rank globally in terms of exports and totaltrade?What is China's total trade as a % of GDP?Which country was China's biggest trading partner during theSocialist era?What were the two elements of the “double airlock” system beforereforms?What are special economic zones? Where were they first setup?What is export processing?What are tariff vs. non-tariff barriers to trade? What role didthey play in reforms?When did China join the WTO? What reforms were necessary for itto do so?Why is it important to look at imports as a measure of openness?How have imports in China been changing?Which "mode" of foreign direct investment (FDI) is most commonin China today?What were the important findings of Hu and Jefferson's (2002)study of FDI in China?How does China manage its exchange rate today? What type ofsystem is this?How would a country intervene in foreign exchange markets todefend a fixed exchange rate?What is the "impossible trinity"? How is it related to China'sexchange rate policy?What is an environmental Kuznets curve?What are scale, composition, and technique effects? How are theyrelated to the Kuznets curve?Where (broadly speaking) in China are the major air pollutantsconcentrated?What did the World Bank estimate for the economic costs ofChina's pollution in 2007? Why might this be an underestimate?What are the main causes of China's degraded water quality? Howare these problems made worse by water shortages?How much of China's surface water is unfit for direct humancontact (Grade IV and above)?What government body is responsible for environmental protectionin China today?What has undermined the effectiveness of China's system ofdischarge fees for pollution?Why is China's arable land shrinking?What is the pollution haven hypothesis?Do Dean, Lovely, and Huang (2009) find evidence to support thishypothesis "on average?"Why do Dean, Lovely, and Huang (2009) argue lower pollutiontaxes is not an effective strategy for attracting FDI?
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