| Foreword | xi |
| Acknowledgments | xii |
| About the Editors and Authors | xiii |
| Acronyms and Abbreviations | xiv |
1. | Impacts and Policy Implications of WTO Accession for China | 1 |
Part I. | Policy Reforms Associated with Accession | 19 |
2. | What China's WTO Accession is All About | 21 |
3. | China in the WTO: Antidumping and Safeguards | 29 |
4. | Intellectual Property Rights in the WTO Accession Package: Assessing China's Reforms | 49 |
5. | China's Agricultural Development and Policy Readjustment After Its WTO Accession | 69 |
6. | The Nature of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession | 81 |
Part II. | Economic Impacts of Accession | 99 |
7. | The Impacts of WTO Accession on Chinese Agriculture and Rural Poverty | 101 |
8. | The Services Dimension of China's Accession to the WTO | 117 |
9. | Logistics in China: Implications of Accession to the WTO | 141 |
10. | Telecommunications Services in China: Facing the Challenges of WTO Accession | 157 |
11. | Accelerating Financial Market Restructuring in China | 181 |
12. | WTO Accession and the Structure of China's Motor Vehicle Sector | 191 |
13. | Economic Impacts of China's Accession to the WTO | 211 |
Part III. | Impacts on Households and on Poverty | 237 |
14. | Earnings and Labor Mobility in Rural China: Implications for China's Accession to the WTO | 239 |
15. | Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the WTO | 261 |
16. | Implications of WTO Accession for Poverty in China | 283 |
17. | Coping with and Adapting to Job Losses and Declines in Farm Earnings in China | 305 |
| Index | 325 |
| Boxes | |
9.1 | Local Policies and Their Implications for Logistics Operations | 148 |
10.1 | Summary of China's WTO Commitments | 166 |
10.2 | Coverage and Definition of China's Telecommunications Sector | 167 |
10.3 | Experience of Chile, Peru, South Africa, and Hong Kong (China) with Universal Access | 175 |
11.1 | Modeling State Bank Performance: Can the State Banks Survive Liberalization? | 188 |
12.1 | Summary of Developments in China's Automotive Sector | 193 |
17.1 | Advantages and Disadvantages of Decentralization | 312 |
| Figures | |
8.1 | Country Services Commitments by Mode | 119 |
8.2 | Sequence of Telecommunications Reform in Nine Asian Countries, 1989-99 | 135 |
9.1 | Choice of Transport Modes: China, 1970-2000 | 143 |