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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

1989

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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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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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Is China Different? A Meta-Analysis of China’s Financial Sector Development

Ljungvall, Christer; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

We examine whether China has benefited more than other countries from financial sector development by performing a meta-analysis of the relevant literature covering a large number of countries at different stages of development. Although the results for China are inconclusive, they indicate the...

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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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Capital Freedom, Financial Development and Provincial Economic Growth in China

Söderlund, Bengt; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

For more than three decades, China has managed to combine rapid economic growth with a heavily regulated financial sector. The discrepancy between economic and financial development has raised the question of whether China might be an exception to the so-called finance-growth nexus. This study...

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No. 233 Is China Different? A Meta-Analysis of the Growth-enhancing Effect from R&D Spending in China.

Ljungwall, Christer; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Abstract: In this paper we examine whether China has benefited more from spending on R&D than other countries by conducting a meta-analysis of the relevant literature on a large number of countries at different stages of economic development. The results suggest that the growth-enhancing effect...

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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?

Heston, Alan - eSocialSciences - 2010

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank, the Regional Banks and Economic Commissions. The 2005...

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