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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the … gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high … illustrates how China's gradual policy reforms, amidst highly imperfect financial markets, have effectively helped spur GDP growth …
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This paper studies how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a country take advantage of international competition. This issue is illustrated with a simple Harris-Todaro model where output gains after trade liberalization depend on the degree...
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While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
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political rent seeking is substantial, firm value might rise as economy performance decays. China offers a suitable background …
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best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …
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