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In a two sector mobile capital Harris-Todaro model, such as Corden and Findlay (1975), an inflow of foreign capital in the presence of protectionist policy is welfare deteriorating as well as unemployment accentuating. But, the developing countries have chosen liberalized investment and trade...
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This paper finds that private sector, which can play an important role in the conservation of biodiversity, is being constrained from doing so by a range of institutional factors. Commonwealth, State and Territory institutional and regulatory arrangements ¡X particularly relating to land...
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As part of its efforts to improve the rural economies of its client countries, the World Bank is supporting programs to strengthen land administration and undertake land reform. Land administration projects can include a variety of activities. Usually, the most expensive and that which is most...
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In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of land leasing that includes transaction costs, risk pooling motives and non-tradable productive inputs, and investigate the empirical implications of land contracts using data collected from four villages in Ethiopia. We show that sharecropping is...
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deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …
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This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …
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This article discusses the probability of growth of neoliberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese … constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and … historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses …
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In this paper we apply a simple macro model to explore and evaluate certain optimal monetary policy rules for China …'s economy. To be more consistent with the central bank (the People's Bank of China)'s behaviour, we use money supply as a …
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direct investments in Mainland China provide robust support to the hypothesis. A project that was located 1000 kilometers …
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This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …, estimates of the extent of Chinese poverty in any year are greatly influenced by the assumptions made. China’s record of …
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