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Understanding China's Economic Performance
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1997
Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental, and incremental nature of China's reforms....
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Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small : The Transformation of the State Sector in China
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2015
Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control. Small state-owned firms were privatized or closed. Large state-owned firms were corporatized and merged into large industrial groups under the control of the Chinese state. The...
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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state …
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Back on the Rails : Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry
Das, Sanghamitra - 2010
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to …
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Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2020
We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global "best practices" including comprehensive assessments, detailed school...
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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … compare changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows … in making progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The …
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China and India : Reforms and the Response
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
The relative performance of China and India is compared using two different methods and they provide a very different …Using a two tailed- test we find that China does better than India for most of these indicators. For instance, China … has a higher growth rate of per capita income, XGS and GFCF as also a higher share of XGS, GFCF etc in GDP than does India …
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Governance, regulation, and privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region : [NBER-East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 12 ; papers presented at the NBER's East Asia Seminar on Economi...
Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Krueger, Anne O. (contributor) - 2004
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Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending
Duggan, Mark - 2000
The hospital market is served by firms that are private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and government-owned and operated. I use a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financing that was intended to improve medical care for the poor to test three theories of organizational behavior. My...
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