Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has
essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European …

Urban poverty represents one of the greatest and most urgent challenges that modern
society is facing. The criticality of this global issue is represented by a rapidly growing body …

If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well‐being, economic growth in itself will
not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do …

We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, measured as sulphur dioxide
emissions, environmental disasters, traffic congestion, access to parkland and well-being in …

Using data from a unique survey conducted in five large Chinese cities that employed an
internationally comparable definition of unemployment, we find that the unemployment rate …

The spectacular economic growth of China in the past three decades has been associated
with an equally remarkable high rate of saving. While the gross national saving as a …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978–2007 based on multiple
sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven‐fold during the period …

New industrial centres are emerging in the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India,
and China), where large numbers of plants have been constructed in recent years, creating …

Following the rise of the Chinese economy, interest in the official statistics coming from
China is intensifying. Official data on GDP, industrial production and other economic …

China's steel sector is the largest in the world and has been a major driving force behind
China's high rate of economic growth. This sector, however, is also a major consumer of …