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The evolution of an industrial cluster in China:

Fleisher, Belton; Hu, Dinghuan; McGuire, William; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"We use two rounds of surveys, taken in 2000 and 2008 in the Zhili Township children's garment cluster in Zhejiang … Province, to examine in depth the evolution of this industrial cluster. Firm size has grown on average in terms of output and … among firms in the cluster. Although the investment amount needed to start a business has more than tripled, this amount …

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Finance and cluster-based industrial development in China:

Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

the conventional wisdom. By studying a cashmere sweater cluster in China, this paper argues that rural industrial …

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The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited

Xu, Chenggang; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"Township-village enterprises (TVEs) were a major engine of China's rapid rural industrialization in the past three decades. TVEs also played a key role in fostering entrepreneurship and served as a major stepping-stone for institutional changes when legal protections of private property rights...

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“Made in China”: Crisis begets quality upgrade

Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The quality of manufactured products made in China has improved tremendously in the past several decades. In this paper, we argue that crises are instruments for the upgrade of Chinese manufactured goods. We first develop a theoretical framework to show that a crisis, if used wisely, could...

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