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mainly to fast increase of inputs. Young (2000) also estimated the TFP growth rate of China to be 1.4% per year during the … the non-agricultural economy (of China) during the reform period is respectable, but not outstanding.' China's real GDP …
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Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …
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about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … the extent and trend of poverty in China, India, and the rest of the developing world, world poverty may or may not have …
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economic outcomes in China. In this article, we construct a set of (rural, urban, total) provincial- level spatial price … provide illustrations of the significant effect of ignoring spatial price differences in the analysis of China’s economy. …
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A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural productivity growth in Chinese provinces during the 1990’s. Results for both methods indicate high productivity growth in the mid 1990’s with a declining trend thereafter....
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Presents a complete and detailed constitutional framework applying the rational self-interest model and market mechanisms to intra and inter- governmental behaviour and collective decisions. In particular, the paper presents an enabling mechanism for the creation, adjustment and dissolution of...
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Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD countries’ social and overall spending as well as their tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. Accounting for potential endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that...
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The paper presents univariate and panel unit root tests for gasoline and oil price convergence over the last decade. We test for the absolute versus relative version of the LOOP and estimate the speed of convergence as well as its development over time. Our results show that the absolute version...
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This paper demonstrates that states’ decisions on limiting congressional terms are empirically determined by measures of relative political influence in Congress. States’ choices on term limits are quantified as a multiple-categorical variable that reflects variation in the stringency of...
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