middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …

jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …

This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by …