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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality...
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China
Huang, Jikun - 2008
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...
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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China
Whalley, John - 2006
Available data indicates a growing urban-rural income gap (the ratio of mean urban to rural incomes) with a significant increase from around 1.8 in the late 1980's to over 3 today. These estimates do not take into account the higher volatility of rural incomes in China. Current literature based...
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Taxes and capital formation
Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1987
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Themes in the economics of aging
Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001
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Saving: its determinants and macroeconomic implications : special conference issue
Ishikawa, Tsuneo (contributor) - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 2 (1988) 3, pp. 205-384
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Saving: its determinants and macroeconomic implications : special conference issue
Ishikawa, Tsuneo (contributor) - In: Journal of the Japanese and international economies : … 2 (1988) 4, pp. 385-491
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Savings and the Terms of Trade Under Borrowing Constraints
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2000
This paper examines the extent to which permanent terms-of-trade shocks have an asymmetric effect on private savings … in bad states of nature, savings rates will respond asymmetrically to favorable movements in the permanent component of … standard determinants of private savings. The results, based on panel data for non-oil commodity exporters of sub …
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