This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a … “short equity, long debt.” Third, China and India have improved their net external positions over the last decade although …. Changes in these factors will affect the international financial integration of China and India (through shifts in capital …

supermarket scanner data on US household purchases during the 2008 Rice Bubble, we show that hoarding is in fact more systemic …, which spilled over into US markets. Anticipating shortages, US households with previous purchases of rice, especially those … through over-extrapolation from high prices and contagion, as many households bought rice for the first and last time during …

Many fear China’s accession to WTO will impoverish its farmers, via greater import competition in its agricultural … accession are drawn on to examine empirically the real income implications of China’s WTO accession. The results suggest farm …/non-farm income inequality may well rise within China but rural-urban income inequality need not. The Paper concludes with some policy …

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a …

inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non …

Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …