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Challenges and Opportunities in a Trillion Dollar Economy

C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011

The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, Indiaâ€™s GDP in US...

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Socioeconomic Factors and All Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among Older People in Latin America, India, and China: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Ferri, Cleusa P; Acosta, Daisy - eSocialSciences - 2012

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … comparing mortality experience with that in the United States, and estimated associations with socioeconomic factors using Coxâ …€™s proportional hazards regression. Cause-specific mortality fractions were estimated using the InterVA algorithm. Crude mortality …

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Government wage policy formulation in developing countries : seven country studies

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Social security for the excluded majority : case studies of developing countries

Ginneken, Wouter van (ed.) - 1999 - 1. publ.

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People's Republic of China; 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

This staff report on Peopleâ€™s Republic of China 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights macroeconomic developments and outlook. China has maintained robust growth since the global crisis, but the heavy reliance on credit and investment to sustain activity is raising vulnerabilities. The...

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ASEAN Auto Market Growing in the Shadow of China and India

Heymann, Eric - eSocialSciences - 2011

The automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto market and its now very major absolute importance for the industry warrant a more detailed analysis. In the following report depicts which opportunities the ASEAN...

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Two Sides of the Same Coin? Rebalancing and Inclusive Growth in China

Lee, Il Houng; Syed, Murtaza H.; Wang, Xin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the...

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Sector-Level Productivity, Structural Change, and Rebalancing in China

Nabar, Malhar; Yan, Kai - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper studies structural changes underlying China's remarkable and unprecedented growth in recent years. While patterns of structural transformation across China's provinces are broadly in line with international experience, one important difference is in labor productivity differentials...

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Three Gorges Dam: A Model of the Past

eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2012

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the worldâ€™s largest and most controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced 1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc with the environment. The reservoir reached its final height in 2010, but many of its impacts...

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Chronicle of a Decline Foretold; Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?

Das, Mitali; N'Diaye, Papa M - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape. Within a few years the working age population will reach a historical peak, and then begin a precipitous decline. This fact, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages...

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