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Rural nonfarm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an important form of industrial organization in the rural nonfarm sector. Based on a primary survey of both urban and rural handloom weaver clusters in Ethiopia, one of the country’s...
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Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for … production in China has steadily increased. If one treats the farm household as the unit of analysis, it would be difficult to …
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In this paper, we argue that economists can learn a great deal from the design principles implemented in medical research. We develop a theoretical model to show the logic of adaptive sequential experiment design in the presence of uncertainty over negative effects and discuss how to choose...
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€“1961, and employ a novel dataset, the China Family Panel Studies, to explore the intergenerational legacy of early …
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Innovations are a key driver of long-term economic growth. There has been an explosion of patent filings in China in …
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"There have been intensive debates on the role of aid in promoting economic development in developing countries by using cross-country analyses. Cross-country regression assuming linear relationship between aid and growth and without taking into heterogeneity of countries would produce biased...
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"Wenzhou used to be one of the poorest regions in eastern China. With limited arable land, poor road access to major … economic growth. However, over the past several decades Wenzhou has developed the most dynamic private sector in China, and has … market share to the largest in China. Here, we report a survey of 140 Wenzhou-based footwear enterprises of various scales …
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This study develops an analytical framework to account for sources of rapid economic growth in China. The traditional … to growth significantly by reallocating resources from low productivity to high productivity sectors, especially by … areas. On the other hand, labor productivity in the agricultural sector remains low, a result of the still large surpluses …
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, threatening China's capability to feed itself. This paper analyzes the determinants of land use by modeling arable land and sown …
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