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Half a World : Regional Inequality in Five Great Federations

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the United States, Indonesia, and Brazil in the period 1980-2000. They are all federations or quasi-federations composed of entities with substantial economic autonomy. Two types of...

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Measuring the Impact of the Investment Climate on Total Factor Productivity : The Cases of China and Brazil

Subramanian, Uma; Anderson, William P.; Lee, Kihoon - 2012

This study measures the impact of investment climate factors on total factor productivity (TFP) of firms in Brazil and China. The analysis is conducted in two steps: first an econometric production function is estimated to produce a measure of TFP at the firm level. In the second step, variation...

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Subnational Fiscal Policy in Large Developing Countries : Some Lessons from the 2008-09 Crisis for Brazil, China and India

Fardoust, Shahrokh; Ravishankar, V.J. - 2013

In response to the Great Recession of 2008, many national governments implemented fiscal stimuli packages in 2009 and 2010 to prevent further declines in aggregate demand and to jump start their economic recovery. Where subnational governments responded with fiscal contraction, as in the United...

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Investment Climate and International Integration

Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...

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International Economic Activities and the Demand for Skilled labor : Evidence from Brazil and China

Fajnzylber, Pablo; Fernandes, Ana M. - 2013

Increases in international economic integration can lead to greater specialization according to comparative advantage, but also to the diffusion of skill-biased technologies. In developing countries characterized by relative abundance of unskilled labor, these factors can have opposite effects...

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Green Industrial Policy : Trade and Theory

Karp, Larry; Stevenson, Megan - 2013

This paper studies the reality and the potential for green industrial policy. It provides a summary of the green industrial policies, broadly understood, for five countries. It then considers the relation between green industrial policies and trade disputes, emphasizing the Brazil-United States...

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Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; Segura, Alex - 2015

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person establishments. This paper...

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Indian Manufacturing : A Slow Sector in a Rapidly Growing Economy

Mitra, Devashish; Ural, Beyza P. - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of productivity in Indian manufacturing industries during the period 1988-2000. Using two-digit industry level data for the Indian states, we find evidence of imperfect interindustry and interstate labor mobility as well as misallocation of resources...

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Two Decades of Reform : The Changing Organization Dynamics of Chinese Industrial Firms

Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru - 2012

Since the early 1980s, China has begun gradually integrating with the global system. In doing so the country has moved toward its own unique brand of market socialism, which recognizes private ownership, and is adopting market institutions and pursuing industrial change within the framework of...

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Openness, Industrialization, and Geographic Concentration of Activities in China

Catin, Maurice; Luo, Xubei; Van Huffel, Christophe - 2012

Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese … economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in …) how concentrated the economic activities are; (2) what factors determine the economic concentration; and (3) whether this …

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