External Publications
Handbook of Green Finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development
January, 2020
AbstractThis handbook is the first to explain ways to finance green projects for implementing the SDGs in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Recently, global investment in…A U.S. Perspective on China’s External Economic Disputes in the Past 40 Years and in the Coming 40 Years
January, 2020
AbstractOn the disputes over China’s trade imbalance, (1) they were marked by analytical confusion over the meaning of the term “equilibrium exchange rate”; (2) China’s trade imbalance reflects the…Understanding the U.S.-China Trade War
January, 2020
AbstractThree major concerns drove the U.S. into initiating the trade war, and they are (a) the concern that China’s chronically large trade surplus was depressing job creation in the U.S. (b) the…Technological innovation policy in China: the lessons, and the necessary changes ahead
January, 2020
AbstractChina has now moved considerably away from being an imitative late- comer to technology toward to being an innovation-driven economy. The key les- sons from China’s experience are that (1)…Zombie Firms and the Crowding-Out of Private Investment in China
January, 2020
AbstractFrom a data set of Chinese firms in the 2005–07 period, we find that government investment boosted the performance of zombie firms and crowded out the growth of private firms; we also found…China’s soft budget constraint on the demand-side undermines its supply-side structural reforms
January, 2020
AbstractChina’s growth rate has been declining every year since 2010, from 10.6% to 6.7% in 2016, and the IMF expects it to drop further, to 5.8% in 2021. Expert opinion on what to do has ranged…The Impacts of China’s Rise on the Pacific and the World
January, 2020
AbstractThis book provides the perspectives of a group of noted China experts on how China’s economic expansion and internal reforms are impacting its neighbors in the Pacific region as well as the…Achieving Excellence in Sustainable Development Goals in Sunway University Malaysia
January, 2020
AbstractThe Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (JSC) was established in 2016 to promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a generous grant of USD 10 million from…
