Showing 1 - 10 of 1,891
rebalancing of domestic demand in China. …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790282
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 …. Across China’s provinces, divergences in per capita incomes are driven by the relative level of capital-intensity, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790266
that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private … existing trends continue, valuable resources could be wasted at a time when China’s ability to finance investment is facing … to that in manufacturing and real estate. Financial reform would facilitate such a reorientation, helping China to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242435
Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This paper documents sector-level productivity patterns across advanced economies prior to the crisis and examines the role of product and labor market rigidities as well as innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245883
The paper examines progress with the external rebalancing of euro area deficit countries. Relative prices are adjusting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959477
the ongoing rebalancing of euro area “deficit economies†(Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) that accumulated large … surplus. Internal rebalancing has come with subdued activity—notably very high unemployment in the deficit economiesâ …€”and made continued adjustment more difficult. To advance rebalancing further, the paper emphasizes the need for: (1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142227
This paper focuses on the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Sustainable Development (SCADD) for Burkina Faso. It provides an overview of a decade of development, takes stock of the recent performance of Burkina Faso in various areas, and identifies the main challenges. The paper spells out a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244631
Rwanda’s Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy provides a medium-term framework for achieving the country’s long-term development goals and aspirations as embodied in Rwanda Vision 2020, the seven-year Government of Rwanda programme, and the Millennium Development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244912
Vietnam has adopted effective policies and measures to accelerate its economic growth rate and reduce poverty while sustaining economic reform, and trying to achieve goals and targets that are set in the Five-year Socio-economic Development Plan 2001–05. The annual progress report, named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245365
This paper describes the Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) 2012/13–2016/17. NSDP recognizes, as a point of departure, the need and urgency for Lesotho to radically transform its economy. To achieve the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245521