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The rapid pace of economic growth in China has been unprecedented since the start of economic reforms in late 1970s. It … and foreign direct investment. While enjoying tremendous success, China also faces many challenges that need to be … analysis of some strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges to China's knowledge economy in the areas of economic …
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The paper presents the development and implementation of a geo-spatial model for mapping populations' access to specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located, population-representative data from the National Water and Sanitation Survey 2015, along...
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Reaping the full benefit of adjustment packages depends on a government's commitment to reform as well as a variety of complementary factors, many of which have not been duly considered because of the lack of time, resources, and skills. It is becoming increasingly clear that if these packages...
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This paper analyzes the role of the United States in the global economy and examines the extent of global spillovers from changes in U.S. growth, monetary and fiscal policies, and uncertainty in its financial markets and economic policies. Developments in the U.S. economy, the world's largest,...
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This paper examines the short- and long-run economic impact of Egypt's energy subsidy reform in July 2014 (without and without compensating transfers for the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution) and the decline in global energy prices, as well as the long-run impact of phasing out the...
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Weak economic statistics in Lebanon impede economic analysis and decision making. This paper presents a new coincident indicator and a leading indicator for the Lebanese economy. A new methodology, based on the National Bureau of Economic Research-Conference Board approach, was used to construct...
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This study explores the potential and the limits of medium-resolution satellite data as a proxy for economic activity at small geographic units. Using a commune-level dataset from Vietnam, it compares the performance of commonly used nightlight data and higher resolution Landsat imagery which...
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mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … father is college educated. In China, the conditional expectation function is convex for sons in urban areas, but linear in … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …
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