costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …

spending cuts and productivity improvements, tax reforms, and asset sales. We find that a policy that reduces the cost of …-targeted spending on infrastructure to deliver long run productivity improvements. Given New Zealands longer term growth challenge, any … fiscal efforts to stabilise the economy and avoid a more severe recession should have productivity at the centre of the …

), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next two decades. By 2030, they could …

, implementation of a comprehensive GST in India is expected to lead to efficient allocation of factors of production thus leading to …

China and India have emerged as highly dynamic economies in recent years. In the Asian region their growth and economic … dependence of India and China is mostly on the industrial intermediate sector, which is critical for their exports. It is … technology is examined. India and China have made steady progress in frontier technologies such as ICT and biotechnology, and …

in India. The textile industrial growth in Tiruppur is discussed in the context of global diversification of textile …

two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in … China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank … currencies and real product per capita for 146 countries, and the results for China and India are discussed in the context of the …