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"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 employment, and increasing divergence in firm sizes has...
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"The rapid growth in consumer demand for livestock offers an opportunity to reduce poverty among smallholder livestock farmers in the developing world. These farmers' opportunity may be threatened, however, by competition from larger-scale farms. This report assesses the potential threat,...
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industrialization and economic growth. In reality, micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can undertake low … widely available in rural China, thereby supporting industrialization even in the absence of a well-functioning capital …
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industrialization over the past several decades, which has occurred in the absence of well-functioning financial markets, seems to defy … explain China's rapid industrialization in the absence of an efficient financial market." from Author's Abstract …
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"Township-village enterprises (TVEs) were a major engine of China's rapid rural industrialization in the past three …
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capital and technology in the incipient stage of industrialization." from Authors' Abstract …
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industrialization when local conditions do not allow easy access to credit. …
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multiplier analysis indicate relatively strong macro-linkages from agricultural demand-led (ADL) industrialization, yielding a … industrialization is associated with a larger GDP increase than the two industrial-led development paths. …
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Using data from multiple sources, we show that in Bangladesh, the increase in real wages, particularly female wages, has accelerated since the late 2000s, suggesting that the Lewis turning point (the point at which the labor market starts to shift in favor of workers) has arrived in Bangladesh....
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