David Zaslow, Editor
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Contents
Introduction
Pension Reform in China: Preparing for the Future
Selected Influences on Chinese Trade Patterns
Introduction
This is the ninth in a series of reports by the Eurasia Branch. This bulletin highlights some of our current work in the areas of demography and economics. The focus is on examining and interpreting new and existing data sets produced by statistical organizations of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet states and Asia. The first article of this issue features an examination of factors relating to the decline in living standards in Ukraine in the post-Soviet period. The piece describes the development of formerly illegal sectors of the economy, which have rendered official data incomplete in their depiction of actual living conditions. The second article describes efforts to reform China's pension system to take account of changes in the population's age structure as well as the increasingly diversified nature of economic activity. The final article describes a survey that was intended to identify the determinants that affect export patterns among selected Chinese enterprises.
