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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469077
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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000
This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470957
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480613
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Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
Putterman, Louis - 2008
We construct a matrix showing the share of the year 2000 population in every country that is descended from people in different source countries in the year 1500. Using this matrix, we analyze how post-1500 migration has influenced the level of GDP per capita and within-country income inequality...
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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
Benabou, Roland - 2004
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
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Why Not Africa?
Freeman, Richard B. - 1999
Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J. - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
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Growth theories in light of the East Asian experience
Itō, Takatoshi (ed.); Krueger, Anne O. (contributor) - 1995
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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations
Dastidar, Siddhartha G. - 2007
We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP … slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government …-controlled companies that were only under study for possible privatization fell by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this …
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