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Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment -- proxied by regional … motorways -- has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to …
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We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the implications for economic growth. We start with a Schumpeterian endogenous growth model where entrepreneurs earn monopoly profits by inventing better goods and financiers arise...
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Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …
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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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This paper constructs a growth model that is consistent with salient features of the Chinese growth experience since 1992: high output growth, sustained returns on capital investments, extensive reallocation within the manufacturing sector, falling labor share and accumulation of a large foreign...
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …
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This paper uses survey data for 60,000 households from 29 transition economies in 2006 and 2010 to explore how the use of banking services is related to household characteristics, as well as to bank ownership, deposit insurance and creditor protection. At the household level we find that the...
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