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This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The...
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. To do such we employ a simple test of employer learning on Ghana manufacturing data. We find no evidence of educational …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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skills, such as adult literacy programs, or other types of education. This paper examines these issues for Ghana, by …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …
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As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … socioeconomic variables matter in the determination of coresidency in China in ways that are very similar to their roles in other …
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