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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by...
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Logistics and Exports
Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports.  A one standard deviation improvement in the … exporter's logistics quality, which for example would improve Gabon to the level of Guinea, would raise exports by almost 60 …%. Landlocked countries' exports depend on their neighbours' logistics, but their own logistics quality is not as important as for …
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Quantifying a Dangerous Obsession? Competitiveness and Export Performance in an OECD Panel of Industries.
Carlin, W; Glynn, A; van Reenen, J - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997
This paper analyses the impact of cost competitiveness and technology on export performance using a very rich panel datset of 12 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 1992.
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China as a Developmental State
Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It analyses the methods and mechanisms that were...
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Patent Laws and Innovation in China
Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
This paper explores whether the patent law and intellectual property rights (IPR) system have resulted in innovation in China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of patent applications are fairly uniform across the...
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Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China.
Knight, J.; Song, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999
The paper analyses two cross-section national household surveys, relating to the years 1988 and 1995, to explain the rise in inequality of income that occured in Chine over those seven years. The Gini coefficient of household income per capita increased from 38 to 45 per cent, i.e. by 1,0...
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Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation
Ding, Sai; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
The paper estimates cross-province growth regressions for China over the period of economic reform.  It first addresses the problem of model uncertainty by adopting two approaches to model selection, Bayesian Model Averaging and the automated General-to-Specific approach, to consider a wide...
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Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change
Knight, John; Ding, Sai - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
In this paper we attempt to explore some indirect determinants of China's growth success including the degree of openness, institutional change and sectoral change, based on a cross-province dataset.  The methodology we adopt is the informal growth regression, which permits the introduction of...
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American Exceptionalism as a Problem in Global History
Allen, Robert - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
The causes of the USA's exceptional economic performance are investigated by comparing American wages and prices with wages and prices in Great Britain, Egypt, and India.  Habakkuk's views on the causes of American industrial pre-eminence are reassessed.  While the USA had abundant natural...
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Informal Agricultural Work, Habitus and Practices in an Indian Context
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper examines recent employment practices among 39 families of Rayalaseema area of Andhra Pradesh, India.  A social class analysis offers a starting point for the study of employment contracts.  Employment practices are diverse, but the habitus of the employers and employees sometimes...
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