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The dynamics of catch-up and skill and technology upgrading in China

Funke, Michael; Chen, Xi - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012

This paper accounts for China’s economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China’s aggregate income. The first stage is characterized by physical capital...

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Financial market reform – A new driver for China’s economic growth?

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Tao, Kunyu - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2015

This paper analyses the financial distortions – growth nexus in China using a tractable general equilibrium modelling approach in which heterogeneous private and state-owned firms interact. The focal points of the model are financial frictions and reallocations of factors of production across...

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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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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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The emergence and spatial distribution of Chinese seaport cities

Funke, Michael; Yu, Hao - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2010

Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with...

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Institutional development, financial deepening and economic growth: Evidence from China

Hasan, Iftekhar; Wachtel, Paul; Zhou, Mingming - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2006

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years. Moreover, the pace of transition has led to variation across the country in the level of development. In this paper, we use panel data for the Chinese provinces to study the role of...

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