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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States

Amiti, Mary - 2006

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

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From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China” : Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2016

on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper …

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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit K. - 2011

that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

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Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise Growth Rate? Some International Evidence

Wang, Zhi - 2010

While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of many successful emerging market economies known as "growth miracles," another component of the growth model is a leapfrogging strategy - the use of policies to guide the industrial structural transformation ahead of a country's factor...

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The Value of Making Commitments Externally : Evidence from WTO Accessions

Tang, Man-Keung - 2008

This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...

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Financial Globalization, Growth and Volatility in Developing Countries

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2004

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal relationship between financial integration and economic growth....

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Open Door Policy and China's Rapid Growth : Evidence from City-level Data

Wei, Shang-Jin - 1993

There is clear evidence that during 1980-90 more exports are positively associated with higher growth rates across Chinese cities. In comparison, in the late 1980s, the contribution to growth comes mainly from foreign investment. The contribution of foreign investment comes in the form of...

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Re-examining the Middle-Income Trap Hypothesis (MITH) : What to Reject and What to Revive?

Han, Xuehui - 2017

Do middle-income countries face difficult challenges producing consistent growth? Using transition matrix analysis, we can easily reject any unconditional notion of a "middle-income trap" in the data. However, countries have different fundamentals and policies. Using a nonparametric...

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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges

Fan, Shenggen - 2013

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China--the past experience and the future prospects. Our...

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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2011

China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature on its consequences focuses mostly on negative aspects such as crime. In this paper, we provide evidence that the imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more...

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