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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce...
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politician corruption that we conducted in North India is remarkably consistent with our theoretical predictions. …
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality …
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teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …
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