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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
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Globalization Policies and Israel’s Brain Drain
Razin, Assaf - 2017
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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China, the EU and the world : growing in harmony?
Lerais, Frédéric (contributor) - 2007
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China's integration with the global economy : WTO accession, foreign direct investment and international trade
Chen, Chunlai (contributor) - International Conference on "China's Conformity to the … - 2009
China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the … information about China's economy after WTO accession and analyses many important issues concerning China's economic growth …
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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Post-Neoliberal Globalization : International Trade Rules for Global Prosperity
Guzman, Martín; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper analyzes frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that it is possible to have some rule of law. In the Arrow-Debreu benchmark, where there is no economic power and political power is seemingly irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free...
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The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth
Besedes, Tibor - 2007
We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export margins. Our empirical approach is motivated by an extension to the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms in which exporters are subject to a one-time sunk cost and also a...
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