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This paper reports the results of an analysis of changes in income inequality, and in its determinants, in urban China … into China after the reforms. However, this will be problematic without equality of opportunity. …
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In spite of the difficulties incurred by its people, Cuba has maintained a centrally planned economy with single party system. On the contrary, Vietnam has introduced a market economy under communist rule, and succeeded in generally improving living standards. The factors that contributed to the...
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This paper examines social sector expenditures in fifteen Indian states between 1980/81 and 1999/2000 to find out whether the far-reaching economic reforms that began in 1991 had any significant impact on the level and trend of these expenditures; and if there was any such impact, what were the...
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Introduction : Economic reform in Indonesia after the Asian currency crisis is often discussed in parallel with Thailand and South Korea, which were alike hit by the crisis. It should however be noted that what happened in Indonesia was a change of political regime from authoritarianism to...
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system, on income inequality in China. This study uses an inequality decomposition analysis approach comparing household …
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Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions … the period 1990-2000, due to rising dependency on neighboring ASEAN countries and China. …
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Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their … economic relations have also grown stronger throughout the 1990s and up to 2005. China is now a major supplier of consumer and … capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through border trade. China also provides a large amount of economic cooperation in …
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Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than … there are factors such as, the scale and increasing diversity of China's domestic market that advantages local firms vis … emergence and evolution of China's handset industry is likely to have international implications as the growth of the global …
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In this paper I re-examined the trade enhancing effects of ethnic Chinese networks, found by Rauch and Trindade (2002), on a newer and extended data set. The effects are estimated by the gravity equation with the product of the population ratio (or absolute number) of the ethnic Chinese in both...
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firm and the disadvantage of backwardness, we present a case study of China's mobile handset industry and proceed to …
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