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Tables of Contents for China's Trade Patterns and International Comparative Advantage
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
x
Preface
xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
4
Key questions
1
1
Outline of the book
2
3
Reforming a Centrally Planned Foreign Trade System
5
28
Foreign trade system reform: an overview
6
3
Major trade reform measures, 1978-97
9
21
Impact of trade reforms
30
3
Factor Intensity of Chinese Tradable Commodities
33
18
Aggregation of tradable commodities and their description
33
1
Commodity classification criteria
33
3
Methods of measuring factor intensity
36
3
Applicability to China
39
1
Factor intensity of Chinese tradable commodities
39
7
Conclusion
46
5
China's Foreign Trade Patterns and Performance
51
24
Commodity composition of China's foreign trade
53
5
Measuring trade performance
58
6
China's foreign trade performance, 1978-96
64
2
Conclusions
66
9
Measuring Comparative Advantage
75
16
Expressions of comparative advantage
76
3
Empirical measurement of country's comparative advantage
79
4
Domestic resource cost (DRC) method
83
3
Interpretation and comparison of DRC results
86
3
Conclusion
89
2
Tradable Goods Price Structure in China, 1978-95
91
52
Estimating relative prices
91
2
China's commodity price system and its reforms
93
4
Changes in China's domestic prices for agricultural products
97
7
Changes in China's domestic prices for industrial products
104
14
Border price trends
118
1
Direct price comparisons
119
7
An analysis of relative prices for tradables
126
9
Conclusion
135
8
Shadow Prices of Primary Factors of Production, 1978-95
143
26
Primary-factor shadow pricing
143
2
Input-output coefficients: skilled and unskilled labour
145
3
Factors' marginal-product estimation
148
13
Shadow prices for non-tradable goods and primary factors
161
3
Conclusion
164
5
China's International Comparative Advantage, 1978-95: DRP Results
169
38
Method and data issues
169
5
DRP estimates of China's international comparative advantage
174
26
Sources of changes in DRP measures
200
4
Conclusion
204
3
China's Trade Patterns and Comparative Advantage
207
16
Comparative advantage and trade patterns: the DRP and the NEPR
207
5
China's trade patterns and comparative advantage
212
10
Conclusion
222
1
Summary and Conclusion
223
6
Trade reforms
223
2
Trade effieiency
225
1
Policy implications
226
3
Notes and References
229
6
Bibliography
235
13
Index
248